PUG Challenge South Africa 2020, March 4th to 5th 2020

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the South Africa PUG Challenge at the Indaba Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre in Fourways, South Africa....

19 February, 2020

FinPUG 2019, May 23-25 2019 on the Ferry Princess Anastasia, Helsinki

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring FinPUG 2019 on the Ferry Princess Anastasia in Helsinki, Finland! This unique Progress User Group seminar will...

13 May, 2019

ProgressNext 2019 Global User Conference, May 6th – 9th 2019 in Orlando, FL

WSS is sponsoring ProgressNEXT, the largest global gathering of the Progress customer, partner and developer community, where people come together to connect, learn...

01 May, 2019

QAD Midwest User Group March 17-19 2019 in Dearborn, Michigan

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the QAD MWUG Spring 2019 at the Henry Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan. Spanning over 3 days, there will...

01 March, 2019

PUG Challenge South Africa, 6-7 March 2019 in Midrand

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the South Africa PUG Challenge at the Midrand Conference Centre in Midrand, Gauteng Province, South Africa. There will be...

01 March, 2019

Why is External Shared Storage a Bad Idea for Your Database?

If you are concerned about performance, the fundamental problem with SAN storage is that it is external and shared....

11 January, 2019

Your database will crash! Should I, would I or could I kill your user process?

A couple of weeks ago we received a ProTop alert about a long running transaction that was threatening to bring down our customer’s...

01 November, 2018

EMEA PUG Challenge, October 10-12, 2018 at the Croke Park Stadium, Dublin

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the EMEA PUG Challenge at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. With 85 speakers, 500+ attendees and 12...

04 September, 2018

PUG Challenge Americas, October 24-26, 2018 at the Nashua, NH Radisson Hotel

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the PUG Challenge Americas conference, at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. This conference includes 60+ breakout sessions...

04 September, 2018

QAD Midwest User Group, September 16-18, 2018 at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown

White Star Software is proudly sponsoring the MWUG's Fall 2018 conference at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. The Midwest User Group is a fast-growing body...

04 September, 2018

The Top 5 Business Continuity Excuses I Hear Every Day

In the past few months, two White Star Software customers experienced one-in-a-million interruptions in availability of their OpenEdge application. I’m not talking about...

07 June, 2018

Dump and Load Strategies Part II: Dumping Data

If you read Part I, you’ve already analyzed your data and designed your Type II storage areas and you’re ready to dump your...

28 May, 2018

Diagnosing Performance Issues (Part 1 of 8192)

Picture a Rubik’s cube in your mind: at the core is the holy grail of system performance, and every colored tile is a...

22 May, 2018

Dump and Load Strategies Part I: Type II Storage Areas

Congratulations! You finally decided to join the modern world and take advantage of Type II Storage Areas (SAII). Hey – better late than...

30 March, 2018

Is Progress Going to Audit Your Licences? YES!

How many of you have been through a licence audit recently? If you haven’t then expect it…and soon. Progress has relied on honour-based...

08 March, 2018

Migrating OpenEdge to Linux is Easier than You Think

Over the past 10 or so years, the number of [AIX, HPUX, Solaris] to Linux migrations have been increasing steadily, along with the...

23 February, 2018

OUCH! Backup Time Stamp on Windows

I was called in to consult at a site where the backups were exhibiting strange behaviour. The backup file was the normal 15Gb...

13 February, 2017