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19 Jul ProTop Newsletter July 2021

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

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22 Jun ProTop Newsletter June 2021

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

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...

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...

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...

04 Mar Video Series: OpenEdge Database Backups

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Video Blog by falia

What’s the best tool to backup the database? Do I have to shut it down? What does Progress recommend? What do experienced DBAs use? Should I hang it up, hire a resume writer? Relax, the right answer came with the OpenEdge installation. In this video,...

01 Mar New DBA Series: No More AIxcuses – Part One

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, High Availability, New DBA by Paul Koufalis

Unless it's a read-only database, no OpenEdge production database should run without after-imaging. Period. After-Imaging (AI) is an OpenEdge continuous change logging system that stores database changes in specially formatted log files. It allows the DBA to restore a database from a backup then apply all...

15 Feb Insane Adventures In Version 8 Corruption

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Crash, Database Internals, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

Friday. 11:00 AM. I get a phone call from a managed services provider who knows nothing about OpenEdge. Their customer had been down since around 5:00 AM and no one knew what to do. Oh, and by the way, this is version 8 on Windows. Wait...

02 Feb New DBA Series : OpenEdge Database Backups

Posted at 08:00h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, High Availability, New DBA, OpenEdge by Paul Koufalis

What's the best tool to backup the database? Do I have to shut it down? What does Progress recommend? What do experienced DBAs use? Should I hang it up, hire a resume writer? Relax, the right answer came with the OpenEdge installation. Take a look: What...

20 Jan Everyone’s got a [high availability] plan ’til they get punched in the face

Posted at 16:25h in Business Continuity, High Availability, Hints and tips, OpenEdge by falia

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