Registration open through 11/29/2022 EST

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Advanced Business Language Essentials (3 Days)

This course is designed for developers who are new to Progress and Open Edge need to learn the features and the basic data management concepts in the ABL. Knowledge of the ABL is required by
developers writing applications using any of the user interfaces: GUI, Character, WebSpeed, WebClient, etc. This is a foundation course that serves as a prerequisite to several other courses in the curriculum
Subjects covered:

- ABL Development Tools, Admin Tool, Data Dictionary, Code Editing
- Data Access model and coding techniques for accessing data
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Create, Update, Delete of Database records
- Developing Programming Logic
- Conditional Processing
- String, Date, and Decimal Manipulations
- Temp-Tables
- Managing Applications Transactions
- Record Scoping
- Error Handling
- Managing Concurrency
- Record Lock
- Coding Techniques for Promoting Code Reusability
- Internal Procedures
- User Defined Functions
- Persistence


Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisite courses in the Progress/OpenEdge curriculum; this is the first course students should take. However, you should have some programming experience in another language and should already be able to:


- List the three types of inter-table relationships possible in a relational database.
- Identify and apply the structured programming constructs of:
- Assignment
- Looping
- Conditional branching
- Modularity (e.g., subroutine or function)