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I know there is a OE Trial you can download for free, but I'm not sure it includes DataServer. Subscribe to the trial and check if the serial/control codes are there. You can connect to SQL Server even without the DataServer through COM using ADO or any other data access technologies. You can even invoke .Net classes such as SqlConnection and SqlDataReader and SqlCommand provided you are running on Windows. In this case you don't need a schema holder but then I can't say you have a pure 4GL program anymore. You average FIND or FOR won't work. The real magic of DataServer is portability and the performance is sacrificed for that. You can take up pretty much any 4GL code, few exceptions, and run it without a single modification on Oracle or SQL Server. You need to jump through many hoops to get better performance with DataServer than you would get from OpenEdge DB. I wouldn't say DataServer is immature. We have had our share of bugs but it usually works. But the DataServer thing is "source code portability" over "performance". I have some material from training I gave my team but all of them are in Brazilian Portuguese. Don't know how much use that can be to you guys 
But if we get few people interested I might be able to host a webminar on this subject. Would that be interestitng?
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But if we get few people interested I might be able to host a webminar on this subject. Would that be interestitng?Continue reading...