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    Progress and SQL Data 'Sync'

    Here is one way: Add triggers to your source table(s) which modify a set of fields on update or insert of a row. That way you can track changes to individual rows and only update what has changed. e.g. add fields called 'modified', 'modification_datetime' etc to source table. Every time...
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    Report Builder - unique Document Name - change the name of the print job

    I know Report Builder is obsolete and should be replaced...but I'm stuck with it for the moment, and it all works fine except for one thing: Is there a way to change the name of the print-job/document-name in Report Builder? As far as I can tell Report Builder will always generate a print job...
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    Active connections grow and grow and grow...

    Looks like a bug in the backup according to that Progress kb... Anyway: probkup online [database.db] [backupfile] >> [logfile.txt] And the backup completes just fine according to log...haven't tried restoring the backup yet, but we've never had issues with restoring our databases. Backup...
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    Active connections grow and grow and grow...

    SP04 didn't fix it, we're going to have to schedule monthly reboot. And it is definitely the backups that are the cause.
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    Active connections grow and grow and grow...

    Thanks for the help guys, I'll see if service pack 4 fixes the problem. That kb article pretty much sums up the problem, except for the fact that only SQL connections are refused. I had already suspected the back-up process was the cause, but I had not done any further investigation... To get...
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    Active connections grow and grow and grow...

    30 minute timeout...yet connections accumulate over a 3 month period... I suspect I've only got two options: Do a scheduled reboot every month or so on each server, or try and identify the offending application/task/process by process of elimination :(
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    Active connections grow and grow and grow...

    I wonder if anyone has seen this one before: The number of 'active' connections to our database(s) keeps going up, even though the number of actual connections remains quite low. I suspect that somehow we have connections to the database that are not being disconnected. The number of 'active'...
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