Upgrade progress 9.1D sp06 to Progress OpenEdge 10
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TomBascom
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There are also some migration white papers on www.psdn.com that might be useful.
You can also hire a consultant
Upgrading is generally a "no-brainer" if you have source code and can recompile.
If you have a purchased application things get trickier -- different vendors have varying attitudes about upgrades. Some are firmly stuck in the dark ages and will only "support" certain releases (in some cases right down to the service pack). Others are fairly liberal about it. IMHO the quality of the support that you get is often inversely proprtional to the amount of fear of upgrades that the vendor instills.
As for the upgrade process itself... At its simplest it is just a matter of running "proutil dbname -C conv910", which takes about 5 minutes, and then recompiling. Of course this trivial process doesn't leverage any of the cool new features like type 2 storage areas (you need to dump and load for that) but it does get you to an up to date release which you can use as a base and then implement new stuff systematically.
Since you posted this in the db admin forum... keep in mind that clients must be upgraded before (or at the same time as) the database. A version 10 client can talk to a version 9 database. But a version 9 client cannot talk to a version 10 database.
There are also some migration white papers on www.psdn.com that might be useful.
You can also hire a consultant
Upgrading is generally a "no-brainer" if you have source code and can recompile.
If you have a purchased application things get trickier -- different vendors have varying attitudes about upgrades. Some are firmly stuck in the dark ages and will only "support" certain releases (in some cases right down to the service pack). Others are fairly liberal about it. IMHO the quality of the support that you get is often inversely proprtional to the amount of fear of upgrades that the vendor instills.
As for the upgrade process itself... At its simplest it is just a matter of running "proutil dbname -C conv910", which takes about 5 minutes, and then recompiling. Of course this trivial process doesn't leverage any of the cool new features like type 2 storage areas (you need to dump and load for that) but it does get you to an up to date release which you can use as a base and then implement new stuff systematically.
Since you posted this in the db admin forum... keep in mind that clients must be upgraded before (or at the same time as) the database. A version 10 client can talk to a version 9 database. But a version 9 client cannot talk to a version 10 database.