Re: Use of comp.databases.informix

mweallans@panacea.co.uk said: > > I have observed over many years that there are few topics that are > likely to get passions rising in this group than comparing Oracle and > Informix (and possibly a few other lesser databases :-) ). But it > never leads anywhere - and the value of the opinions expressed is often > less than a television soap opera. > Can I please request that those of you who want to spend your days > wallowing in the merits or otherwise of different databases, languages > should set up a different newsgroup. And leave CDI as the place to go > when you really want to talk about Informix. But DB2 has a single code base! -- 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