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Search results: Informix

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Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

SQL interface to obtain the temporary space usage (tables, hash, sorts...)

A DBA and possibly a programmer needs an easy way to monitor who is responsible for the temporary space usage.Currently it's possible a user may be consuming a lot of temporary space and impacting other sessions, without the DBA being able to quic...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Page limitation for single fragment, to avoid stop the business and recreate the table .

Remove or enlarge the 16,775,134 page limitation per fragment.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration