Re: Why there is no controlfile in Informix like Oracle ?

BTW... From time to time I think SPL really sucks... I don't know about PL/SQL but Transact-SQL (ASE/SqlServer) puts SPL in shame... Ahhh... Chucho! Dave wrote: > Also sprach Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo <jeansagi@myrealbox.com> : > > > :I like Informix a lot... at the engine level... but at the tool level > :informix really sucks (sorry). > > Have to agree with this sentiment. After having had the chance to use PL/SQL > for a few projects, I now have to wonder why Informix never provided > similar capabilities. As SPL is already part of the engine, it seems to be a > *relatively* easy task (i.e. making all of SPL available for ad hoc queries). > There is just a ton of stuff you can do in Oracle with > just sqlplus running pl/sql scripts. To do anything comparable with Informix, > I gotta pull out ESQL/C, perl/DBI, etc. Certainly doable, but requires the > installation of additional tools, which is not always an option. > > plink, plink. > Dave > > sending to informix-list