Re: Exchanging data between two instances
Posted in 1999
Milton J. Vidrine, Jr. — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
David's reply is correct. However, I have not been able to successfully exchange
data in this way between versions 7 and 8. I just use the unload/load drill.
HTH
Milton
Rob Gale wrote:
> Please forgive my naivete, but is it at all possible to do something like:
>
> connect to mydb@myserver;
> select * from yourdb@youserver:ourtable
> insert into ourtable;>
> It seems that this would be a logical thing to want to do. Obviously I have
> tried this and failed, but is that because my approach is wrong ? What about
> exchange between different instance versions, e.g. 7 and 8
>
> Regards,
> Rob Gale