Re: FoxPro vs. Informix

Posted in 1995

Colonel Panic — 24 Feb 1995 09:26:38 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <thatcher.10.2F4BA2FC@edge.ercnet.com> thatcher@edge.ercnet.com (Tom Hatcher ) writes: >Could anyone help explain why Foxpro running on a Pentium base PC is able >to populate a 40MB database in 1 minute and it takes Informix 6.0 running on a >dual processor Spark 1000 server 10 minutes? Uh, different disk speeds? Using SE rather than OnLine? Concurrent activity on the Unix side? Poorly written load routine? etc. There are WAY too few specifics here for us to be much help here. Perhaps example schema and load code? -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -- Galileo Galilei