Re: SMI information

Posted in 1998

Arun Shastry — Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:03:29 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jay wrote: > Can somebody tel me where I can find out more info about what is held > in each of the SMI tables ?. > > I've looked through the DSA Admin guide but there's not a great deal > in there. > That's because 1) the structures keep changing from version to version 2) Informix doesn't want their users to know the API (unlike Sybase) Look in the sysmaster.sql to get a much better idea about these tables, then go out to the sysmaster and do some queries. It took me about 2 years to know what I know now about SMI :-) Good luck, Arun > > Any help appreciated. > > Jay.