Re: Reducing Table Sizes
Posted in 1998
Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Herb Blacker wrote: > Here's a thought...I wish to copy a database to a *test* instance, but I > don't need the tables to be as large as those in the production DB. > What I was thinking...and I could be way off base here...is that if I > did a DBEXPORT, then edited the <dbname>.sql file to reduce the number > of rows where the table is being created, and *also* edited the > corresponding <tabname>.unl file to remove all but the # of rows I want > to import - will the DBIMPORT work or not? Simply, yes it will. Sorry no long winded expansion this time. Art S. Kagel