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Preparing a Data Source for the Utility

The Progress-to-ODBC migration utility does not literally translate definitions for Progress fields into columns in your target data source. It automatically makes adjustments in the target data source in order to provide the functionality of the Progress and target systems.

If your foreign data source supports all the functions of being compatible, the Progress-to-ODBC utility will create the objects in the ODBC data source. It converts arrays by using one column in the ODBC data source for each extent of the Progress array. The utility generates names for the columns that it adds to a table in a target data source using the format field–name##extent–number. For example, a Progress field called monthly–amount with an extent of 12 will have 12 columns in the data source with names such as MONTHLY_AMOUNT##1 through MONTHLY_AMOUNT##12.


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