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Accessing the Data Dictionary
You can access the Data Dictionary in two ways:
Before any Progress tool can work with a database, you must connect to that database. Connecting a database means that Progress opens the database file and has access to the schema and data from the file. Depending on whether or not databases are already connected, the startup behavior of the Data Dictionary is different:
- If you haven’t connected a database, Progress displays a series of dialog boxes to let you specify one. The next section describes how to use these dialog boxes.
- If you have connected a database, Progress loads the schema of that database into the Data Dictionary and displays the Data Dictionary main display, as shown in Figure 4–1.
Figure 4–1: Data Dictionary Main Display
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Note that while you work with the Data Dictionary, you cannot work with the tool you started the Data Dictionary from (the Desktop or the Procedure Editor), although it remains open.
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