Progress
Language Tutorial
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Creating a Database

Follow these steps to access the Data Dictionary and create a new database.

  1. Choose Tools Data Dictionary from the Procedure Editor.
  2. When you start the Data Dictionary without having connected a database, the Dictionary Startup dialog box appears, as shown below:

    This dialog box prompts you to connect an existing database, create a new database, or continue with no database.

  3. Choose Create a New Database and then OK. The Create Database dialog box appears as shown below:
  4. Type sports in the New Physical Database Name field.
  5. The Start With radio-button set displays the following copy options:
    • An EMPTY Database — Progress supplies an empty database template. This is the database you use to create and design a Progress database from scratch.
    • A Copy of the SPORTS Database — Progress supplies a sports inventory demonstration database to help illustrate database design and application programming concepts in the Progress documentation set. The examples and exercises in this tutorial use a copy of the sports database.
    • A Copy of Some Other Database — You can specify another Progress database to copy.
    • Select the SPORTS database radio button.

  6. Activate the Replace If Exists toggle box. In this case, the Replace If Exists toggle box represents a YES/NO question. (Do you want the new database to replace any existing database of the same name in the current directory?)
  7. Choose OK to create a copy of the sports database.
  8. Once you create a Progress database, you must connect the database to access the data in it. When you choose OK in the Create Database dialog box, the Database Connect dialog box appears to help you connect the sports database. Choose Cancel for now. The next section describes how to access this dialog box directly.
  9. The main Data Dictionary display appears.


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