Progress
Results Administration
and Development Guide
Application Databases
To deploy all or a portion of an application database, you must perform a dump-and-load operation. These are the situations that force you to deploy all or a portion of an application database from the development environment to the user environment:
- If the application database does not exist in the user environment, you must deploy the entire database.
- The application database exists in the user environment, but there are some changes to the schema of the database that you must deploy to the user environment.
- The application database exists in the user environment, but there is new data (for example, new user definitions in the _User file) that you must deploy to the user environment.
A dump operation produces text files containing data definitions (.df) files and data (.d) files. Transfer these data definition and data files to the user environment to recreate the application database or to load updates into an existing application database. When you deploy a database, remember to deploy the source code for any trigger procedures associated with the application database.
For more information about database triggers, see the Progress Programming Handbook. For more information about dumping and loading databases, see the Progress Database Administration Guide and Reference.
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