Business Continuity

26 Jan Worst Practices – Part One

Posted at 16:30h in Business Continuity, Database Maintenance / Best Practices, Hardware Considerations, High Availability, Hints and tips, New DBA by Paul Koufalis

A catalog of wince-inducing practices to be avoided for the OpenEdge or, indeed any, database. We Won’t Need That! "Oops…" Do not EVER destroy your production database, even if it is badly damaged. In a recovery or migration situation it can sometimes be tempting to overwrite your database in...

13 Dec ProTop Newsletter December 2021

Posted at 01:35h 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. Visibility is one of the key themes when it comes...

14 Oct New DBA Series: More Ways to CRASH Your Database

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

Nectar Daloglou's post on 99 Ways to Crash Your Database was so popular, we thought we'd bring you even MORE ways to ruin the upcoming holidays! The dreaded "abnormal shutdown" Sound familiar? Pretty much anyone who supports an OpenEdge database has experienced this. WDOG 6: (2522) User 22...

09 Nov ProTop Newsletter November 2021

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

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02 Nov New DBA Series: DBA Checklist – Part Two

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

In part one, we examined routine tasks scheduled for different times. In this post we're going to look at special events and the checklists associated with them. OpenEdge Updates and Service Packs The basic procedure for installing an OpenEdge update or service pack is as follows: Shutdown...

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

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