Re: Crash course for an Oracle DBA

S. Anthony Sequeira said: > Hi, > > I'm an Oracle DBA, given the task of supporting a customer with > Informix Databases. I have to give myself a crash course in Informix. > I'm trying to relate Oracle to Informix terms, to give me a start. > The customer is running IDS Version 9.20.TC3X1 (not what the suffix > is) running on NT4 :( 9.20 is out of support. 9.30 is out of support. 9.40 will be out of support soon enough. I'm pretty sure NT4 is out of support as well. > I'm trying to find a resource on the web that will give me a rundown > of Informix terminology, I've been skimming through 'INFORMIX - > OnLine Dynamic Server Handbook' by Carlton Doe, published in 1997. > > I've got as far as the following, if there are any Oracle people here, > maybe they can correct any misconceptions. > > Informix Oracle > Page Block > Chunk Datafile > DBSpace Tablespace > > I believe that the DBSpace <-> Tablespace equation is not a precise > analogy, though I'm willing to be corrected. > > My quick skim has also led to to believe that there are fundamental > differences between an instance in Oracle and one in Informix, and the > same applies to the term 'database'. Yes, there are differences. > Anyway, any good documentation out there freely available over the > web? What I'm looking for is a treatise on concepts, once I have the > basics digested, it will be easier to start masticating the heavier > details. How about the manuals? http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/ > Also, is a 9.30 trial version downloadable? No. It's out of support. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "I'm astonished anyone pays real money for this crap." -- Cosmo -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.