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Search results: Informix

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Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

32k pagesize dbspace

Informix has the 16775134 pages limit for one fragment. the rowsize of some user table is very wide. for those tables , if the pagesize is more big, it's small change to reach the limitation.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Speed control for 'cdr sync'

'cdr sync' is a very fast and efficient way of creating a copy of a table when used with loopback replication. The problem is that it can be too quick and can create logical logs at a rate that can overwhelm replication and log backups. The idea i...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support LIMIT clause in Common Table Expressions

Using LIMIT clause in a CTE gives a syntax error (with IDS 14.10.FC10) sf@toro (master):~/genero/devel/dbsync/dbsync$ cat x.sql WITH recent_rows AS (SELECT log_ordinal FROM dbsync_log WHERE log_table_name = 'stkitem' ORDER BY log_ordinal DESC LIMI...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Fixing IPA in a 15TB OLTP database or large database

We have a 15 TB size oltp db running in 12.10.FC12. We want to fix the data with pending IPA,however, we cannot use the traditional way due to : - we cannot put the DB offline for hours to fix the data with pending IPA and it will be between 5 to ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Alter table that has foreign keys

Abilit to alter tables with foreig keys when referenced tables are opened.
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration