RE: IDS - DSS version

Posted in 2004

Dale Gilbert — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:39:13 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C486E4.FD8EDD14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This goes back to ver 6 or 7 and was an add-on product for a short time. = I don't think it exists anymore. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Dunham-Wilkie [mailto:mike@barrodale.com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:39 AM To: rkusenet; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IDS - DSS version A google search for "bitmapped DSS Informix" turned up the following = paper: http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf so you're not dreaming, although I don't know if this product exists = outside of the white paper. Mike At 06:47 AM 8/20/04, rkusenet wrote: "Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote > There is no product based on IDS code base dedicated to DSS... > Unless someone has a secret project ;) This is my understanding too. However the person who told me insists = that it is IDS with DSS option. No XPS. No RedBrick etc. He specifically = referred to bitmap index as one of the features in IDS-DSS,but not in regular IDS. Had he not been an ex-Informix employee, I would not have taken him = seriously. ---------------------------------------------- Michael Dunham-Wilkie, M.Sc., M.P.A. Senior Database Analyst Barrodale Computing Services Ltd.=20 Tel: (250) 472-4372 Fax: (250) 472-4373=20 Web: <http://www.barrodale.com>; http://www.barrodale.com Email: mike@barrodale.com=20 ---------------------------------------------- Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3075 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2=20 Shipping Address:=20 Hut R, McKenzie Avenue=20 University of Victoria=20 Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 ----------------------------------------------=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C486E4.FD8EDD14 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>This=20 goes back to ver 6 or 7 and was an add-on product for a short time. I = don't=20 think it exists anymore.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr style=3D"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft>-----Original Message----- From: Mike Dunham-Wilkie = [mailto:mike@barrodale.com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 = 9:39=20 AM To: rkusenet; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: = Re: IDS -=20 DSS version </DIV> A google search for "bitmapped DSS = Informix" turned up the following paper: <A=20 href=3D"http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf"=20 = eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf</A> <BR= >so=20 you're not dreaming, although I don't know if this product exists = outside of=20 the white paper. Mike At 06:47 AM 8/20/04, = rkusenet=20 wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=3Dcite cite=3D"" type=3D"cite">"Fernando Nunes"=20 <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote > There is no product = based on=20 IDS code base dedicated to DSS... > Unless someone has a = secret=20 project ;) This is my understanding too. However the person = who told=20 me insists that it is IDS with DSS option. No XPS. No RedBrick = etc. He=20 specifically referred to bitmap index as one of the features in=20 IDS-DSS,but not in regular IDS. Had he not been an ex-Informix = employee,=20 I would not have taken him seriously.</BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP> = </X-SIGSEP><TT>---------------------------------------------- Micha= el=20 Dunham-Wilkie, M.Sc., M.P.A. Senior Database Analyst Barrodale = Computing=20 Services Ltd. Tel: (250) 472-4372 Fax: (250) 472-4373 Web: <A=20 href=3D"http://www.barrodale.com">http://www.barrodale.com </A>Email: = mike@barrodale.com=20 ---------------------------------------------- Mailing = Address: P.O.=20 Box 3075 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 Shipping = Address:=20 Hut R, McKenzie Avenue University of Victoria Victoria BC = Canada=20 V8W 3W2 ----------------------------------------------=20 </TT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C486E4.FD8EDD14-- sending to informix-list

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