I need some guidance on extracting data from a Progress v 8.3 database. What tools will I need, and will the database respond to standard SQL queries? Please help, this is a real emergency for a client of mine.
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Generally, you will need a 4GL development licence. With that you can use the Data Administration tool (called Data Dictionary in character mode) to dump data to space-separated text files.
And yes, you can make SQL queries, but from a 4GL procedure editor.But this probably won't help much.
For more information about dumping, see the section "Dumping and Loading" in the "Database Administration" document here: http://communities.progress.com/pcom/docs/DOC-10838 (this is the 9.1E document but should be similar)