Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

Posted in 1998

Chuck Renaud — Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:33:55 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> The 64 bit port of Informix on HP-UX 11 (7.30.FC3) still has the 2GB > chunk size limitation. However this 64 bit port overcomes the 2GB > limitation of a file used as a tape device with the ontape or onunload > utilities. The 32 bit port of Informix on HP-UX 10.20 with large > filesystem support enabled has a 2GB limitation on the file used as a tape > device with the ontape or onunload utilities. Does this has anything to do > with the subject of the thread? Well, I thought it might... The 2GB limit with ontape was a bug and was fixed in one of the 7.24 releases, I believe. After upgrading to a bug-fixed release, I regularly did > 2GB backups to disk with ontape on HP-UX 10.20.