Looking for database schema for Intergy database

Question

Can someone point me towards a source for schema definition for the Intergy database? It's a Medical Practice Management database by a company named Vitera (Intergy used to be owned by Sage). The database engine is Progress. Basically, what I'm looking for is the table names, the associated columns, and the Primary/Foreign Keys. I've gone to Vitera, and have been told that this info is proprietary. I've built a simple web app that peeks at the Progress catalog tables, and this has gotten me part of the way. But, it would be nice to get a little more detail. Thanks.

Answer 1

If you can get to the catalog tables you've got what you need. You probably just need a little understanding of the relationships between _file, _field and _index to complete the picture.

_file = table

_field = column

As Tim points out there are no explicit foreign keys and so forth.

Fields are related to tables by a common "recid". I'm not a SQL guy and won't pretend to be one but the 4GL version of the query relating them is:

for each _file no-lock where _tbl-type = "t":

  display _file-name.

  for each _field no-lock where _field._file-recid = recid( _file ):

    display _field-name.

  end.

  for each _index no-lock where _index._file-recid = recid( _file ):

    display _index-name.

    for each _index-field no-lock where _index-field._index-recid = recid( _index ):

      find _field no-lock where recid( _field ) = _index-field._field-recid.
      display _field-name.

    end.

  end.

end.

It should be fairly obvious how to convert that to SQL.

Answer 2

Progress uses a "Data Admin Tool" to manage the schema, and it'll dump a "df" file for you which'll have the db's schema structure.

It's not a SQL db though, so there's no "primary / foreign key" implemented in the db, so you'll have to infer any relationships between the tables.

Answer 3

Contact the customer that you are supporting and see if they are paying for ODBC access as the schema is something they get with a paid subscription. If not then I am guessing they may be in violation of their contract with their vendor.