Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows


Installing Progress On Your TCP/IP Network

When installing Progress on your network, keep these two basic considerations in mind:

Locating Your Database

Place your database on the hard disk of the machine that runs the Progress server. If you place the database on a remote file server, synchronous writes are lost along with your database’s integrity, in the event of a system crash.

Synchronous writes ensure database integrity by flushing system buffers directly to disk. This is especially important for maintaining the before-image (BI) file. Therefore, if you must keep your database separate from the database server machine, use the Before-image Filename startup parameter to keep the before-image file local to the database server.

NOTE: Remote Progress clients do not have to be concerned about synchronous writes because they do not write to the database.


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