Re: port a sql server partitioning approach over to informix

sumGirl said: > The attached article outlines an apparently "ground breaking" > semi-homegrown parititioning strategy on a VLDB hosted on an MS SQL > Server. > > http://www.sqlmag.com/Innovators/Zareer.pdf > > I am mildly interested in the idea due to the similarity of a > situation we have here with a honking big database that will only get > bigger. I would love to get some feedback. I am interested to see that this is considered a VLDB.... Anyway, Informix's rather badly-named "fragmentation" does all this, and it's built in. And Redbrick's partitioning would also kill this problem. The strategy is reasonably sound, although it sounds more like they got the idea from reading an Informix manual than from innovation. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list