Re: Hands-free Administration

Indeed. I just visited a company with no Informix DBA but a live instance that had been happily up for 319 days :-) "Art S. Kagel (Oninit LLC)" <art@oninit.com> wrote in message news:mailman.390.1202129311.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > Chris Youll wrote: >> I have been trying to follow the resurgence of Informix IDS and the new >> cheetah product line. In the "Chat with the Labs" presentations and the >> IBM Web site a great deal is referenced about the ease of management. I >> believe, I read or heard something about installing IDS and never have to >> worry about it, it just runs. I don't think any database company would >> come out and say their product requires more DBA's than anyone else. >> So, is it the complexity of the environment that the RDBMS is in or is it >> the RDBMS product that actually makes the product hands-free >> administration? >> >> Any specifics on what makes IDS hands-free would be useful. >> > > Hi Chris, > > Once an IDS instance is tuned to one's operating environment it is not > unusual to be able to just 'let it run'. Clearly changes in the business > environment that the server is supporting will occasionally require the > engine to be retuned or for a table to be reorganized, periodic large > operations like deleting large blocks of historical records may cause one > to want to rebuild an index for efficiency immediately rather than let the > page scanners reorganize it over time. So, the real operator guiding how > hands free any IDS instance is will be the dynamism of the environment > that it has to support, but that will effect any database server one would > use. The difference for IDS is that at any level of required support, the > amount of effort and time required of the DBAs or other administrators is > normally far less than for other competing products. There are literally > hundreds of Informix instances out there that haven't been touched by > human hands for years at a time. There are shops that have run for years > without even knowing they have an Informix database server. > > Art S. Kagel > Oninit > >> Thanks, >> Chris >> > > > =========================================================================================== > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > communications disclaimer: > http://www.oninit.com/home/disclaimer.php > > =========================================================================================== >