RE: 2 Databases
Yes you can, just have two different ONCONFIG files, one for each database. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Parsli [SMTP:thomas.parsli@ose.no] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 8:48 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: 2 Databases Alvin Palacios <alpalaci@mnl-hub.dhl.com> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------CF5199BF62D2957E76F42C44 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > Informixsers, > > Is it possible to have 2 databases (same name) on a single informix > instance ? And how should Informix know which database you where thinking on? > How would you do this ? I wouldn't... Is there any reason why they cant't have names like database_1 and database_2? (And if there is you could run two instances on the same server, they can of cource have the same content [with ie. replication?]) > > Alvin > > --------------CF5199BF62D2957E76F42C44 > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; Please don't use vcard in news-groups, it's ok in mail though (as long as I don't recieve it:) Thomas
"M. Najaa" <najaa@itsq8.com> writes: > Yes you can, just have two different ONCONFIG files, one for each database. And the question was: "Is it possible to have 2 databases (same name) on a single informix instance ?" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thomas
In article <u3dvoluk1.fsf@ose.no>, Thomas Parsli <thomas.parsli@ose.no> wrote: > "M. Najaa" <najaa@itsq8.com> writes: > > > Yes you can, just have two different ONCONFIG files, one for each database. > > And the question was: > > "Is it possible to have 2 databases (same name) > on a single informix instance ?" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Thomas > > I reiterate an earlier response :- 1. How would the engine know which database you are referring to and , possibly more importantly :- 2. Why on earth would you want two databases with the same name ? Regards Glyn Balmer Glyn Balmer (two posts from the same deja instance!!) -- If it always works, why don't parachutists pull the emergency 'chute first? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.