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How to determine the largest length of Progress 4GL fields

Discussão em 'StackOverflow' iniciado por fdantas, Setembro 24, 2018.

  1. fdantas

    fdantas Administrator Moderador

    In OpenEdge / Progress 4GL, a field can be defined with a FORMAT, but that is only the default format for it to be displayed. Thus, a CHARACTER field with FORMAT 'X(10)' could store thousands of characters past the first ten.

    The database I'm using contains millions of rows in some of the tables I'm concerned with. Is there any system table or Progress-internal program I can use to determine the longest length of a given field? I'm looking for anything more efficient than full-table scans. I'm on Progress 11.5.

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