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...
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...
Congratulations! You finally decided to join the modern world and take advantage of Type II Storage Areas (SAII). Hey – better late than never. There’s a lot of old, out-of-date or just-plain-wrong information out there, so ignore all that stuff. I have conveniently digested some...
