What's New in 10.1A

Finished a webinar this morning about What's New in 10.1A. Lots of cool things. They recorded the webinar, but it's not available yet, should be there in a day or so. Here are a few highlights:

• Adding & activating indexes via the 4GL
• XML schema validation
• Auditing of Create, Delete & Update - not done via triggers, built into Progress now
• Application level auditing (they said there will be a webinar in Jan on auditing)
• Start and stop auditing via the Progress Explorer
  
• Online schema changes - Add an index (inactive)
• Webspeed - Blob support

With auditing, they said to be careful - it can create a LOT of data fast. A single area can hold 2 billion records, so you need to come up with strategies for archiving your auditing data. Also, audit records can NOT be edited. This will make the Sarbanes (and other) people happy. As we all know, the new IDE is based on Eclipse. Someone asked if the new IDE would work on unix. They said while Eclipse will work on unix, they don't know if the Progress plug-in will, and they are going to look into it.

They also gave some numbers in the performance area:

• Progress v8 -> OpenEdge 10 -- 43% increase
• Progress v9 -> OpenEdge 10 -- 10% increase
• OLTP load: out-of-box 5% increase, with Type II Storage Areas, 24% increase
• Progress v9 -> OpenEdge SQL: Insert w/Index 35%; Update w/Index 26%; Scan select 56%!

One cool thing about the SQL increase is if you have any products that use SQL you will get this increase. This includes reporting tools like Cyberquery.


Lots of cool things! I just hope our var will be supporting it soon.