Re: Is Informix Reliable?

In article <34c89ee0.0@webserver.flclerks.com>, Kevin Patten <patten@nospam.flclerks.com> wrote: : We have found the SE product to be unreliable!!!! Screwed up indexes, : inaccurate row counts.... However, the Online version (7.2x) has been very : reliable from a data integrity standpoint. : The optimizer is psychotic, however there are workarounds. In my 10+ years working with Informix (and RDS when the co was called that) I've never found SE to be unreliable. I have found badly written code and poorly designed databases that have been unreliable. You are correct about the psychotic optimizer though. -- gburnore@databasix dot com or gburnore@netcom dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ DataBasix | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ Raleigh, NC | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ spamgard(tm): zamboni | '۳ 3 4 1 4 2 '' 6 9 0 6 9 '۳ http://www.databasix.com | Official Proof of Purchase =========================================================================== PGPprint: C63B CF4E 1B71 4D7E C6F8 AF4E 338D 5CB4 KeyID: 0x0F7EDBD9 (RSA) finger gburnore@netcom.com for public key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------