•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using ABL documentation
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  • Typographical conventions
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example procedures
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
•  Introduction
  • Oracle DataServer overview
  •  DataServer components
    • OpenEdge DataServer for Oracle logic
    • The schema holder
    •  Security
      • OpenEdge security
      • Oracle security
    • DataServer utilities
    • DataServer demonstration database
    • DataServer configurations
    • SSL enabled DataServer
    •  Distributed DataServer applications
      • Distributed DataServer configuration with SSL
      •  The Distributed DataServer using the Unified Broker Framework
        • The Distributed DataServer using ProBroker
        • A closer look at OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer tool
        • Introducing the mergeprop utility
  • Software requirements
  •  Guidelines for using the DataServer
    • Using the OpenEdge DataServer for Oracle for the first time
    • Using the DataServer to migrate a database from OpenEdge to Oracle
    • Upgrading to the OpenEdge Release 10 DataServer for Oracle
  •  Documentation resources
    • Guide to related topics
•  Initial Programming Considerations
  •  Database design issues
    • Oracle and OpenEdge objects and terminology
    •  Naming conventions
      • Field and column names
      • Table names
    •  Code pages
      • Client code page
    •  Support for Unicode
      • Support for Unicode character sets
      • Support for Unicode data types
      • Configuration requirements
      • Implications of data widening
    •  Indexes
      • Database index key widths
      • Leading and trailing spaces
    • Case-sensitive
    • Index repositioning
    • Initial values
    •  Oracle views
      • Multi-table views
      • Views containing aggregates
    • Database triggers
    •  Sequence generator
      • Comparing OpenEdge and Oracle sequence generator features
      • The INT64 data type effects on Oracle database sequences
    •  Oracle synonyms
      • Synonyms and distributed databases
  •  Data types
    • Oracle NUMBER data type
    • Oracle CHAR and VARCHAR2 data types
    • Oracle Number data
    • Logical data type and Oracle equivalents
    • ABL supports RAW data type
    • Oracle BLOB and BFILE data types
    • Oracle CLOB and CFILE data types
    • Oracle DATE data type
    •  Working with Datetime data types
      • ABL datetime data types
      • Oracle datetime data types
      • Performing data type conversions
      • Converting data types within ABL
      • Pre-selection criteria for the schema pull
      • Converting datetime data types between OpenEdge and Oracle
      • Converting ABL data types to Oracle data types
      • Converting Oracle TIMESTAMP types to ABL DATETIME types
      • Working with Oracle 8 and earlier releases
      • Working with Oracle 9i and later releases
      • Data type value retention
    • Unsupported data types
  • Arrays
  •  Unknown Value (?)
    • Zero-length character strings
  •  Record creation
    • Comparing record creation behavior
    • Ensuring record are created in a predictable order
  •  Record locking
    • Monitoring locks
  • Transactions
  •  Error handling
    • Overflow checking
  •  Cursors
    • Static FIND cursor repositioning
    • Stale cursors
    • Allocating cursors
  •  ABL issues
    • RECID function
    • ROWID function
    • Progress_Recid change
    • DEFINE BROWSE statement
    • Field lists
    • FIND PREV/LAST statements
    •  Compiling ABL procedures
      • r-code
    • Unsupported ABL statements
    • National Language Support
  • Handling lock timeouts
  • RDBMS Stored Procedures
•  RDBMS Stored Procedure Details
  •  Overview
    • Defining native stored procedures to ABL
  • RDBMS stored procedure basics
  •  RUN STORED-PROCEDURE details
    • Syntax reference for RUN STORED-PROCEDURE
    •  RUN STORED-PROCEDURE statement
      • LOAD-RESULT-INTO phrase
      • PROC-STATUS phrase
      • PROC-HANDLE phrase
      • NO-ERROR option
      • PARAM phrase
    • CLOSE STORED-PROCEDURE statement
    • RUN STORED-PROC statement execution without the LOAD-RESULT-INTO phrase
    • RUN STORED-PROC statement execution with the LOAD-RESULT-INTO phrase
    •  RUN STORED-PROC statement with send-sql-statement option
      • Without the LOAD-RESULT-INTO option
      • With the LOAD-RESULT-INTO option
    •  RUN STORED-PROC statement with special internal option
      • ds-close-cursor option
  •  Data output and retrieval options
    • Return codes
    • Values of output parameters you define when you create a procedure
    •  Results retrieved from a database
      • Using the OpenEdge-supplied proc-text-buffer for row results
      • Defining a special view on the Oracle data source to use as a buffer for row results
      • Loading results into a temp-table
  •  Interfacing with RDBMS stored procedures
    • Retrieving return codes
    • Retrieving output parameter values
    • Retrieving results with cursor arguments
    •  Retrieving results sets using proc-text-buffer
      • Technique to use proc-text-buffer
      • Assessing a result set obtained from the proc-text-buffer technique
    •  Defining a view to use as a buffer
      • Technique to define a view to use as a buffer
      • Assessing result sets obtained by defining a view as buffer technique
      • Examples based on views created in the data source
    •  Loading a result set into a temp-table
      • Getting started
      • Employing additional enhancements
      • Creating a temp-table layout plan
      • Using a temp-table handle with an unprepared dynamic temp-table
      • Details about a dynamic temp-table in an unprepared state
      • Details about a Dynamic temp-table in a prepared state
      • Additional temp-table examples
  •  Handling errors
    • Error messages related to using the LOAD-RESULT-INTO phrase
  •  ROWID support
    • Understanding the ROWID Implementation
    •  ROWID characteristics
      • ROWID: Standard ABL behavior
    • Using ROWID with RUN STORED-PROCEDURE and LOAD-RESULT-INTO
    • Additional ProDataSet support
•  Additional Features to Enhance DataServer Performance
  • Enhancements overview
  • SQL and ABL queries
  • Bind variables
  • Query tuning
  • Caching records
  • Oracle hints
  • Using field lists when updating records
  • Setting the data-source result set retrieval option
  •  Join by SQL DB
    • Improving join performance for queries with REVERSE-FROM option
    • Improving join performance for queries with FIRST or LAST criteria
  • Skipping schema verification
  • Writing queries for performance
  • Closing inactive cursors
•  Configuring the DataServer
  • DataServer modules
  •  Configuring Windows modules
    • Configuring the local DataServer in Windows
    • Configuring the DataServer in the Windows host
  •  Configuring UNIX modules
    • Configuring the local DataServer on UNIX
    • Configuring the DataServer on the UNIX host
  • Configuring an international environment
  •  Configuring the DataServer in the Unified Broker framework
    • Configuring the Unified Broker framework in Windows
    •  Configuring the Unified Broker framework on UNIX
      • Validating ubroker.properties content
      • Configuring multiple brokers
      • Using the NameServer
    • Establishing the SSL protocol in a DataServer broker instance of the Unified Broker
  •  Creating, Maintaining, and Deploying a schema holder
    •  Schema holder security
      • Permissions for creating a schema holder
      • Authorization and Authentication for connecting a schema holder
      • Database Authentication During Foreign Database Connect
    • Running Oracle
    • Starting the DataServer processes
    •  Starting ProBroker distributed DataServer broker with SSL-enabled Progress Networking
      • Non-default SSL certificates
    • Creating an empty OpenEdge database
    • Using the DataServer utility to create a schema image
    • Maintaining a schema holder
    • Deploying a schema holder
    • Setting up a schema holder as a Windows service
  •  Configuring a self-service DataServer agent in the OpenEdge Appserver and Progress Application Server
    • Configuring the OpenEdge AppServer agent as a self-service DataServer session
    • Configuring the Progress Application Server agent as a self-service DataServer session
•  Connecting the DataServer
  • Starting the local DataServer
  •  Starting the remote DataServer
    •  Starting the DataServer in the Unified Broker framework
      • In the Windows host
      • On the UNIX host
      • On the client
    • Starting and stopping the ProBroker process from the command line
    • Starting the UNIX client process
    • Starting the Windows client process
  •  Connecting a schema holder
    •  Connecting a schema holder at startup
      • Remote DataServer: Windows client
      • Remote DataServer via NameServer: Windows client
      • Local DataServer: Windows
      • Remote DataServer: UNIX client
      • Local DataServer: UNIX
      • Connecting a Schema holder and a broker using SSL-enabled Progress Networking
    •  Connecting through Oracle Networking
      • Connecting with external credentials
    • Optional connection and startup parameters
    • Query tuning with connection and startup parameters
    • Setting a session's timestamp
    •  Analyzing application execution with Enhanced Logger
      • LOG-MANAGER system handle attributes and methods
      • DSLOG-MANAGER system handle attributes and methods
      • Log entry types
      • Logging levels
      • Setting the DataServer logging levels and log entry types
      • Server Context Log File Naming
      • Creating a unique log file per connected client
      • Enabling ABL to SQL Correlation in Logging
      • qt_debug logging
    • Index cursors
    • Local schema caching
  •  Connection failures and OpenEdge responses
    • Connection troubleshooting
    •  Accessing the DataServer log using qt_debug logging options
      • Naming the log file
      • Setting the log file location
      • Handling log file creation errors
      • Restrictions on dynamic changes to log file
      • Using the $UNIQUE_DSLOG environment variable
•  The DataServer Tutorial
  • Oracle Utilities menu
  •  Managing server attributes
    • Overview of foreign database constraint definitions
    • Constraint definition names
    •  Defining constraint definitions in Data Administration
      • Defining a primary key constraint definition
      • Defining a unique key constraint definition
      • Defining a foreign key constraint definition
      • Defining a check constraint definition
    • Modifying an existing constraint definition
    • Activating or deactivating a class of existing constraint definitions
    • Deleting an existing constraint definition
  • Creating a schema image
  • Updating a schema image
  • Verifying a schema image
  • Changing logical name and connection information
  •  Modifying a schema image
    • Modifying table-level information
    • Modifying field-level information
    • Defining the ROWID
  • Changing a code page
  • Deleting a schema image
  • Migrating an OpenEdge Database to Oracle with PRO/SQL
  •  OpenEdge DB-to-Oracle utility
    • Preparing a database for the utility
    •  Oracle size limitations
      • Column names
      •  Column width
        • Changing the width of the column
    • Naming conventions
    • Oracle tablespaces for tables and indexes
    •  Running the OpenEdge DB-to-Oracle utility
      • Running the OpenEdge DB-to-Oracle utility in batch mode
    •  Handling character length during database migration
      • Handling character type conversions to CLOB
  •  OpenEdge DB-to-Oracle Incremental Schema Migration utility
    • Adjusting field widths during migration
    • Updating the Oracle database
  • Adjust an Oracle schema image to an OpenEdge database
•  Upgrading DataServer Applications
  • Upgrading schema holders from Progress Version 9
  • Manually adding PROGRESS_RECID to Oracle
• Environment Variables
•  Sample Queries
  • Query 1
  • Query 2
  • Query 3
  • Query 4
  • Query 5
  • Query 6
  • Query 7
  • Query 8
  • Query 9
  • Query 10
  • Query 11
  • Query 12
  • Query 13
•  Building DataServer Executables
  • Overview of the building process
  • Requirements for Building the DataServer Executables
  •  Building executables for the UNIX Client
    • Replacing your default client executable:
    • Identifing your new executable with an environment variable and without relocating
  •  Building executables for the UNIX Host
    • Building a UNIX host executable
    • Replacing your default server executable
    • Identifying your new executable with an environment variable and without relocating
•  DataServer Command Line Utilities and Startup Parameters
  •  Command line utilities for the DataServer
    • NSCONFIG utility
    • NSMAN utility
    • ORACONFIG utility
    • ORAMAN utility
    • PROBRKR command line syntax
    • PROSHUT command