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Search results: Informix

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A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
24 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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

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

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