RE: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company:IThought Informix was Dead?

> >So I've been doing Oracle for almost 20 years now and I've been >assigned to learn Informix IDS so I can become a backup Informix DBA. I >thought when IBM acquired Informix they would kill it and move >everybody to UDB (DB2 for non-mainframe). So what is happenning to the >future of Informix? > Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset before Informix was. ;-) The interesting thing is the architecture of the engine. (Something you don't see.) Informix's future is bright. And getting brighter. I don't know if you saw the analysts warn off on Oracle because of slow RDBMS growth.... >BTW, it seems like a pretty good database. Kinda of a cross between >Sybase and Oracle. > Actually no. Both Sybase and Oracle pale in comparison. That's not to say that Informix is *perfect* (It still has its warts...) But it is better designed than Oracle and while Sybase had offered some similar features with their adaptive server technology, they created some performance issues which meant that your developers had to be careful else they'd kill performance. >Help me understand. > Ok, The one really weird thing about Oracle is that while you have an instance, you treat each database as a user. With Informix, they are called databases. Users are authenticated against the OS. Also PL/SQL has some strange notions on syntax.... But trust me, you'll love Informix once you get the hang of it. _________________________________________________________________ WIN up to $10,000 in cash or prizes ' enter the Microsoft Office Live Sweepstakes http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0050001581mrt/direct/01/

"Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.503.1165625626.29126.informix-list@iiug.org... > Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset > before Informix was. ;-) When did "sunset" become a transitive verb? Or in fact a verb of any kind?

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:41:56 -0000, "Captain Pedantic" <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: >"Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:mailman.503.1165625626.29126.informix-list@iiug.org... > >> Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset >> before Informix was. ;-) > >When did "sunset" become a transitive verb? Or in fact a verb of any kind? > So you're wondering when 'sunset' was verbed? 8-) JWC

John Carlson wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:41:56 -0000, "Captain Pedantic" > <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.503.1165625626.29126.informix-list@iiug.org... >> >>> Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset >>> before Informix was. ;-) >> When did "sunset" become a transitive verb? Or in fact a verb of any kind? >> > > > So you're wondering when 'sunset' was verbed? 8-) > > JWC http://www.oup.com/oald-bin/web_getald7index1a.pl new search: sunset ---- sun'set /'s{phon_capv}nset/ noun, adj., verb > noun 1 [U] the time when the sun goes down and night begins: Every evening at sunset the flag was lowered. 2 [C] the colours in the part of the sky where the sun slowly goes down in the evening: a spectacular sunset 3 [C] a fixed period of time after which a law or the effect of a law will end: There is a five-year sunset on the new tax. > adj. [only before noun] 1 used to describe a colour that is like one of the colours in a sunset: sunset yellow 2 used to describe sth that is near its end, or that happens at the end of sth: This is his sunset tour after fifty years as a singer. 3 (of a law or the effect of a law) designed to end or to end sth after a fixed period of time: a two-year sunset clause in the new law > verb (-tt-) [v, vn] (of a law or the effect of a law) to end or to end sth after a fixed period of time: The tax relief will sunset after a year. Someone ought to give the Capt'n a new dictionary... -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab WAIUG Conference http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html