Progress Data Replication – What, Why and How?

Host and Speaker: Prabhu Jha

Speaker: Rajinder Kamboj

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Data Replication?

•Clone data consistently at one of more target Locations

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Data Replication? (Cont.)

Disaster Recovery

For OpenEdge to OpenEdgeFailover Process

•Data replication is not for:

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Need for Replication ?

•Data for BI, Analytics & Reporting

•Alternative views of data

•Heterogeneous application integration

•Copy of data from a cloud hosted system

Real-time Data

Replication

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Challenges in Replication

•Connectivity

•Managing different data types and data structures

•Complexity

•Performance

•Disruption of normal business operations

•Scalability

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Approaches of Replication Solution

•Off-the-Shelf

•OE Pro2

•Handcrafted

•Use of Traditional ABL Programing and OE DataServer

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Replication components

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Components

OpenEdge4GL

Database triggers

Data Server

DSN for connectivity

Replication flow

Flow

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Data replication completed

Data feed to Data Server

Connectivity with foreign

DB

Queue Processing

Replication Queue

Transactional data in

Progress DB

Typical Working of Replication?

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• Captured data changes via

replication triggers

•Write information to que

•Multi-threaded replication process

retrieves the updated record

•Queued data is moved via OE Data

Server

Consideration in Solution Selection

•OpenEdge License

•Complex OpenEdge environment & infrastructure

•Versions of the OpenEdge

•Scalability

•Implementation time

•Support requirement

•Cost

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Use case

•A Manufacturing house

•50 Worldwide Progress based instances

•Different Progress versions, 8.3c – 10.1c

•Took 1 – 2 weeks to roll worldwide data into the BI structure

•Pro2 was installed across ALL environments

•Data warehouse and BI is hooked to replicated instance

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Business Use case (Handcrafted)

•An specialized logistics service provider

•150+ nationwide OE based application instances

•Same Progress Version at all location

•Require OE based application data into MS SQL Server

•Traditional Replication solution was implemented

•MS Power BI is hooked to the replicated instance

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Q & A

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