Re: Illustra Database access

Posted in 1996

W. Craig Trader — Thu, 05 Sep 1996 10:08:41 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Arthur M. Kang wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience extracting information out of an > illustra database when NOT connected to the database or the license > server?? > > Does anyone have any perl scripts or any other programs to extract > information from illustra databases? > > Any and all help would be appreciated. I take it you mean programs meant to extract data from the database file without using LIBMI or msql. That would mean having to reverse- engineer the physical layout of a database on disk ... a daunting task at best. I don't think you're going to find a lot of help ... Illustra isn't that widely used. You might want to consider getting the source to Postgres95. Since the two packages are derived from common roots, there might be some common structures (but I doubt it). -- ct7@kaizen.net \\Excellence can be attained if you... \\ W. Craig Trader \\Care more than others think is wise... \\ Senior Software Engineer\\Risk more than others think is safe... \\ Kaizen Works, Inc. \\Dream more than others think is practical...\\ 703.733.2853 \\Expect more than others think is possible. \\