1. Real-Time Data Replication From Your Progress DB (Pro2 Enterprise)
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Terry Mays
Progress-BravePoint

2. What is Pro2?
Near real-time replication from OpenEdge to MS-SQL or Oracle
Constantly sends “net change” to the target
Supports Progress 8.3 – OE11.x
Mature Product
Version 1 released in 2006
Version 4 released June 2011
Version 4.5 released June 2014
Version 4.6 released January 2015
Large install base
200 customers world wide, 500+ implementations

3. Pro2 Features Extremely low-impact, scalable architecture
Replication speeds of 10,000-50,000 rows/minute are typical (LAN environment)
Captures both ABL and SQL changes
Administrative Console
/SMS alerting -
Customizable replication
by table/row/column
Custom transformations using ABL supported
Datatype and name transformation
Target side only fields/indexes

4. Pro2 Benefits
Removes issues associated with ODBC connectivity to the OpenEdge database.
Overstuffing of data fields
Pro2 uses the target side column widths to determine the length of data to be sent. No need to use DBTOOL to fix “widths”
Runtime evaluation of target side limitations
SQL Server – Won’t accept a date with year less than 1753 or greater than 9999.
Early versions had issues with NULL BIT fields.
Oracle - Won’t accept a date with year 0.
Target schemas do NOT have to match.
Customers can now add columns/indexes directly to the new target without affecting the source side application.
We can update target side only fields for use with downstream data extraction.

5. Benefits Constantly sends “net change”
If a new customer is coming from an environment of ODBC extractions, then the overall footprint of daily activity is considerably smaller than their previous setup.
Gives them options for NEAR REAL TIME views of data at the target.
Allows for many implementation options
Combining multiple source databases into a single target. (very popular request.)
Separating a single source database into multiple targets.
Target side only fields
Target side only indicies

6. Network Layout AppServer Target DB Source DB WAN Repl DB
9 tables
Source Side Machine(s)
Target DB
Target Side Machine(s)
WAN
AppServer
4GL connection
GUI client/Server
MSSQL ODBC
Oracle Client
4GL Client
Pro2 Server(s)
Pro2 Software
OE Client Networkng License
OE DataServer License
Schema Holder DB (s)

7. Demo