[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: The best way to migrate the database to another platform

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True, you will need to rebuild indexes if you do a traditional dump & load. For what it is worth... I frequently run into people who assume that they cannot dump & load because it will "take too long". But if you start asking questions about how long their window really is and what the circumstances really are I often find that it can actually be done much more reasonably than they think. In this case we are hearing that there is a one hour window. That may be a rock solid, no way it can be any longer limit. I don't know. But lots of people say stuff like that when they think a dump & load requires a 3 day weekend. When you can show them that it could actually be done in 4 hours they often find that maybe they could get a bit more time by asking nicely.

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