Business Continuity

19 Oct ProTop Newsletter October 2021

Posted at 15:30h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

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29 Mar Corruption and Crash Protection, Courtesy of After-Imaging

Posted at 00:24h in Business Continuity, Crash, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, High Availability, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

No one wants to think about a database crash, and even less about losing data, and yet every month or two I get a call from an IT Director in exactly that situation. Their OpenEdge system has been down for hours and stays down for...

20 Sep New DBA Series: 99 Ways to CRASH a Database

Posted at 15:30h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, High Availability, New DBA by Paul Koufalis

The best way to avoid disasters is to learn from mistakes, preferably someone else's. Memorize this series or polish your resume-writing skills! Nectar Daloglou of OmegaServe joins us this week to share some of the less-than-optimal events that he's seen over his 20+ year career as...

14 Jun User Died, DB Crashed, Business MAD!

Posted at 08:25h in Business Continuity, Crash, Database Internals by Paul Koufalis

Anyone who has been around the OpenEdge world for a while has had to face the dreaded "User died holding shared memory latch. ABNORMAL SHUTDOWN" crash. While this sometimes happens as a result of a Progress OpenEdge bug, more often than not it's a human...

13 Sep ProTop Newsletter September 2021

Posted at 14:08h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you'll find out what's new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop. Many of you have some kind of operating system monitoring...

07 Sep New DBA Series: DBA Checklists – Part One

Posted at 12:12h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices by Paul Koufalis

Database Administrator (DBA). Sounds important, doesn't it? But what are you supposed to do every day? People often ask us: "what tasks should an OpenEdge DBA be performing? When? What should my daily, weekly, quarterly, etc. checklist have on it?" In this New DBA Series group of posts,...

16 Aug ProTop Newsletter August 2021

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you'll find out what's new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop. Last month we showed you the dashboard view in ProTop...

19 Jul ProTop Newsletter July 2021

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

22 Jun ProTop Newsletter June 2021

Posted at 07:30h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you'll find out what's new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop. In this month's issue: leveraging ProTop for your morning check-up...

10 May New DBA Series: No More AIxcuses – Part Two

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices by Mark Bonneville

If you follow the guidelines suggested here, you can expect more hours of uninterrupted sleep at the very least, and at best? You will experience minimal disruption to your system should your OpenEdge databases be damaged for reasons beyond your control. In Part 1, we covered the...