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Accessing the Data Dictionary

You can access the Data Dictionary in two ways:

  1. From the ADE Desktop, click the Data Dictionary tool button.
  2. From the Procedure Editor, select Tools Data Dictionary.

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:

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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