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Connecting a Schema Holder

As described previously, connection can take place automatically using the information that you enter when you create a schema holder. In addition, Progress provides the following techniques for connecting to a schema holder:

You can use combinations of different connection techniques. For example, you can connect the schema holder at startup, then connect to the DataServer using the Progress CONNECT statement. Any combination of connection techniques works, as long as you follow these steps in the order shown:

  1. Connect the schema holder first. If you are not updating the schema holder, you can specify the Read-only (-RO) connection parameter to enhance DataServer performance.
  2. Connect to the ODBC data source.

If you connect to the schema holder and the ODBC data source in a single startup command or connection statement, be sure to specify parameters that affect the schema holder before the Database Name (-db) parameter. Specify only those parameters that affect the ODBC data source connection after the -db parameter.

The following section explains how to connect both a schema holder and an ODBC data source when you start up Progress.


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