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lalitinmbd
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Odbc read failed in Progress database

Dear All,

I am presently working on progress database and i am facing a problem while extracting the data from db.

When i reload my extraction application at some points in some tables it pops up an error odbc read failed

when i do ok it reloads but some data gets missed. i.e QlikView doesnot pulled all data from db. I have figured

out that there are some fields in those tables due to which this error occurs. when i comment these fields QV

pulls all data from db. I looked into the dump of one table provided by db team and found that the culprit field

has data in it which exceeds the coloumn size. But i cant comment that field as it is required in the reports.

Do any body have any idea how to tackle the situation.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards

Lalit

21 Replies
andriesb
Creator II
Creator II

field length could also be checked (if it is correct) if you try to load your records via excel-odbc: it will fail in the same way.

Please read

http://documentation.progress.com/output/OpenEdge102b/pdfs/dmsdv/dmsdv.pdf

to see how to use the dbtool (we used the option 2) by manual execution on a non regular base. I dit noticed this problem as a rebuild did not show all the records i expected. (record extraction count stayed the same ...)

Using this DBTool will solve your problem!  On our 5 GByte Progress database, it took about 5 minutes to complete.

Other helpfull links are:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6193275/progress-odbc-problem-with-sql-width-dbtool

http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/documentation/docs/mq_install.pdf

My own humble question : as one of the links suggest : This tool is recommended by a user to be performed once a month. Does anyone know how to use this as a command line utility so that it could be sceduled?  If so , please share this code

etl_tools
Creator
Creator

Lalit

Sorry I've got confused between Progress ODBC and Postgres ODBC.

We did work with Progress as well a while ago

Mike

lalitinmbd
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
Author

Its Ok  Mike.

I am working on Progress database.

Any suggestions on the same issue would be helpful.

Lalit

Not applicable

We have Progress OpenEdge installed on a server running Linux.

I have a program that I have scheduled to runs once a week this code:

UNIX SILENT VALUE ('dbtool /users/colontw/db/XCOLONTW < /users/test/jeroeno/dbtoolinput.txt 1> /dev/null 2> /users/test/jeroeno/dbtoollog.txt').

dbtoolinput.txt is filled with the options you want to use for dbtool.

for example:

2

1

all

all

1

and with 1> and 2> you can redirect the output to an other location than your screen.

Not applicable

Has any one solved thisproblem?

rbecher
MVP
MVP

Is this problem also related to a JDBC connection? Maybe this could be a solution..

Astrato.io Head of R&D
etl_tools
Creator
Creator

Some ODBC drivers are tricky to work with

If there is a JDBC driver you can try it instead together with Ralph's JDBC connector

or you can try our ETL Tools - Qlik View Connector it works with ODBC as well

Mike

Not applicable

Character fields in progress are variable length and ignore the SQL width setting in the DB schema (there is a start-up parameter where you can force Progress to adhere to it - can't remember it off the top of my head).

One of the records in your address table  (field address-1) has more characters in it than the setting of the SQL width for the field.

Two options:

Update the Progress database schema so the SQL width is > the maximum length of the field, or reduce the text in the offending record.

Do a search on "openedge dbtool" - dbtool is a tool supplied by Progress that can update the SQL width settings for you.

Emmanuelle__Bustos
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Lalit Chaudary

Same problem reading a Progress 10.2B Database:

QVX_UNEXPECTED_END_OF_DATA: SQL##f - SqlState: S1000, ErrorCode: 4294757284, ErrorMsg: [DataDirect][ODBC Progress OpenEdge Wire Protocol driver][OPENEDGE]Column num_factura in table PUB.Docs-x-pagar has value exceeding its max length or precision.

What of all the posts is the correct answer?

lalitinmbd
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
Author

Dear Emmanuelle,

In progress DB there is no limitation on the length of the characters that can be inserted in the field. e.g Let's say there is a table A in progress which has below fields

            Field Name           Field1   Field2    Field3     Field4

            Length(CHAR)         100      50          50          29

So in progress db you can enter the data which could be of more length then defined....in such cases the mentioned error come. The way to tackle is to increase the length of the fields in the progress db in which the error is coming so ask the db team to increase the length of the field due to which the error is coming..........

Regards

Lalit