RE: FW: Informix versus Oracle Spatial

Dirk Moolman said: > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Obnoxio The Clown > Sent: 05 December 2005 03:31 PM > > >>Have you tried UPDATE STATISTICS? > > > As long as you don't ask this to the people in my company. The 4GL > programmers (including our "software manager"), have no faith in update > statistics, and Informix - they keep telling me how bad IDS is, and > blame a lot of issues on update statistics (probably need an excuse to > pass the buck). Ah! Old-school programmers. Still used to SE and accessing things by ROWID, eh? Tell you what, why not offload a couple of these issues on me, free of charge, for my impartial advice and comment, since I know IDS and 4GL (and SE)? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ` dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com sending to informix-list