True or False: Any Index Will Do

3 July 2025

Join our next Webinar on Thursday, 3rd July at 16:00 CET with Peter Judge.

Most ABL developers know that a whole-index search is a Very Bad Thing. But not all indexes are created equal - and not every index chosen by the AVM will deliver optimal performance. Especially in applications using networked database connections, the number of records returned can matter just as much as execution time.

In this technical webinar, Peter Judge will explore:

How the AVM selects indexes
Why the selected index might not be ideal
How to detect and avoid inefficient index usage
Practical strategies for tuning index selection in ABL applications

Whether you are modernizing legacy code or optimizing high-performance systems, this session will give you insights and tools to improve the performance of your OpenEdge applications.

Speaker

Peter Judge

Peter Judge is a software architect at Consultingwerk, and has been working with Progress since 1996.Over the years, he has gone from writing reports, to building customer applications, to writing frameworks, to designing and building libraries, and generally makes stuff work together. Peter's background is in application and application toolkit design and development, and more recently has worked on server and integration technologies, but his interests span the whole SDLC from design through to deployment, regardless of language and technology.

Peter is a frequent poster to various forums, a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, and believes that we only grow individually if we all grow together.

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