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Progress 8.2 is ancient, obsolete and unsupported. You should upgrade to a reasonably modern release such as 11.7 or, soon, 12. There may be a few things that need attention and there is, of course, testing required. But if you can compile your application's source code then you can very easily upgrade from Progress 8 to OpenEdge 11 or 12. Progress maintains excellent backward compatibility and does not require you to rebuild your application just to upgrade to a supported release. If upgrading is not an option then simple file based imports are, by far, the simplest, most efficient and most reliable way to import data into a version 8 database. When 8.2 was released 20+ years ago ODBC was just barely starting to appear in the world. There were some very rudimentary drivers that you could obtain that would give you some crude connectivity along those lines. Compared to the sort of connectivity that you are probably used to seeing, or which you could get with 11.7, they are not going to be very impressive. It would be amazing if you can even find them and get them working.
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