Re: How to copy a database

Chao Y. Din (cdin@explorer.csc.com) wrote: > Valery Fouques wrote: > > > > Kevin Brand wrote: > > > > > Do NOT use onload or onunload, since it's not reliable. > Did I miss the point? I believe the fastest way to copy a database is > as follows. I'm afraid you've misquoted me and no, reading every row of every table is not the fastest way. For speed, you must read and move pages of data at a time via an archive or onunload, which both read and transfer Informix pages instead of rows. Kevin Brand