Accessing Data On Progress Tables

[Neil Stewart]

Hi

I've been given the task of looking for data on a system running a Progress DB OE10.2B07 (on Windows).

I'm able to run the Data Administration and using the Data Dictionary I can see the column definitions on the tables but not the data itself.

Is there a certain tool I should use for this?

I'm afraid my Progress knowledge isn't very good!

Thanks.

 

[Marco Mendoza]

Hi

I've been given the task of looking for data on a system running a Progress DB OE10.2B07 (on Windows).

I'm able to run the Data Administration and using the Data Dictionary I can see the column definitions on the tables but not the data itself.

Is there a certain tool I should use for this?

I'm afraid my Progress knowledge isn't very good!

Thanks.

The data dictionary is not for see the data.
You can do a FOR EACH thetable: DISPLAY thetable. END.
Or use DataDigger

 

[tamhas]

The two common ways of looking at the data are an ABL program (the Progress 4GL) or SQL. But, given your apparent lack of ABL knowledge (or you wouldn't be asking the question), a third option, as Marco suggests, is DataDigger, which is ABL designed to make it easy to browse through the data without having to write any code. You can find it here DataDigger | The OpenEdge Hive

 

[catch.saravana]

I'm able to run the Data Administration and using the Data Dictionary I can see the column definitions on the tables but not the data itself.

Do you want to just have a look at data of couple of tables? Or Is there any other purpose behind it? Are you trying to debug some data related issue?