Re: Emergemcy Chunks Offline - tbzero utility

Michael Strother from Informix says: >For those of you that think that all tbzero does is mark down >chunks >as available you are sorely mistaken and that is exactly the >reason that >tbzero does not belong in the public domain. >Enough on this thread...it aint gonna become available and >that's >all there is to it... >tbzero was never meant to be fix for DBA or SysAdmin oversights. You know, I was with you until those last 2 comments. I've been on both sides of this fence and I understand the extreme resistance to giving us potentially dangerous tools. But exactly what oversights are you talking about? When bad stuff happens to a database it's just as likely to be hardware or bugs in sw, maybe even the DBMS sw! Not wanting to take a mission-critical application offline to do a restore from backup is called being responsive and understanding of the business requirements. It's cavalier comments like this from vendors that really hack me off. -- No opinions, just FAX! Uhh... I mean FACTS!