Re: HELP! SE versus Online
On 17 Jan 1995 13:38:09 -0500, Jon C. Vemo <jvemo@cyberspace.com> wrote: >At 12:50 AM 1/17/95 GMT, Ed Puskas@rmy.emory.edu wrote: >>We have been on Informix SE forever (on Unix v.4 NCR/AT&T). Anyhow, >>I just lost my Informix DBA and was told that I have until Thursday to >decide if we > >Ed - > >I would not suggest converting your 300 sites to OnLine, without a DBA (or >someone who is familiar with OnLine). I have to agree with JVEMO. We are in the same shape- transitioning away from the old ATT/NCR junk. My management just had to have Online on one of our 3B2's although I told them it would perform extremely poorly in a 3B2 environment. Sure enough... Unless you're on modern hardware, it just doesn't pay to run Online. Unless you can give it enough memory, you're not going to get the most out of it's super-duper gee-wizz cacheing doo-hickies. 3B2's just plain can't unless you bought the RISC upgrade that no one else did. Online is an administration pig requiring a great deal more DBA cycles to keep running. SE on the other hand is well behaved and rarely acts up unless provoked. ============================================================================ _______ / | James R. Ware / | / | jware@server.cdpa.ms.gov MS Dept. of Archives | | Systems Administrator \\ | 100 S. State St. | | PHONE: (601) 359-6888 P.O. Box 571 / | FAX: (601) 359-6905 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 / | |______ | / | \\____| ============================================================================