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Search results: Informix

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Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Perform update statistics based on selected Fragments of a table

This idea is to run update statistics based on selected fragment(s) to refresh table update statistics on latest or selective fragments only. As there are considerable number of fragmented transactional tables are located under current databases t...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

Speed option for table repack

Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tabl...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Archecker table level restore utility does not compatible of handling Informix engine complex table schema clauses

Individual Table restoration 'archecker' utility only support simple schema definition contents as the schema file. However, Informix engine support complex clauses when setting up a table. E.g. When fragmenting a table based on interval based fra...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Support limit (first xx) on delete statements

Currently limiting the number of rows to be deleted like "delete first 500 from " is not supported.Only supported in simple selects.To define which 500 records are deleted, this might be an alternate solution:delete from where ID in (select first ...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide more granular database-level privileges than just CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA

We have a requirement to support a code deployment role where a user, whose job role is not a DBA, can release code into a given database. The type of things they would be doing is:* Creating and dropping procedures, synonyms, triggers, indices an...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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