OpenEdge Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server

The DataServer Tutorial
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Check Default to OpenEdge DATETIME to automatically map MS SQL Server data
types to the associated OpenEdge data type. If you have modified your client application
to handle LOB data types, check Default to OpenEdge LOB to map the OpenEdge LOB
data type to MS SQL Server VARBINARY (MAX), IMAGE and FILESTREAM data types. For
more information on mapping OpenEdge and MS SQL Server data types, see the “Support
for OpenEdge ABL BLOB data type” section on page 2–30.
3. Choose OK. A dialog box like the following example lists the objects and table
information that you have preselected:
4. Select the objects that you want to update, then choose OK. When the update completes,
you return to the Data Administration main window.
When the update completes, you are reminded to check the ds_upd.e file. This file contains
information about the tables that did not support record IDs as well as other warnings.
When you update a definition, OpenEdge overwrites the old definition with the new one based
on the current data source object. It also preserves the OpenEdge-specific table information. As
a result, if you want to add a new column to a table in your data source and then update the
definition, you do not have to re-enter all of the OpenEdge-specific information for the
previously existing columns (fields) in the definition.
Note: When you update a table in the schema holder with the Update/Add Table Definitions
utility, the information for the user-defined ROWID is lost. You must reselect an index
to support the ROWID.