Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:58:39 +0200, "Billy Wheeler" <billy@west.co.za> wrote: >> - let external programs access the files directly without extracting >> them from the database > >What does that help? > speed?? >> - let the external programs do their work and put the results back >in the >> database so I can create my reports on the extracted data > >Uhhhh...? For example I thought of scanning the image directory and extracting file names, size, date, image type, height, width, colors, compression ... all kind of data that can be obtained from the image file and that should be stored in the database. Put the results in a little script and load this to the database for further processing. >The advantages come in the form of being able to do content >analysis within the database. Take it from me... :-) I just have to keep my (old) systems running and at least lost the time to keep up with every new version ... sigh. Thanks for your explanations. Is there a document on the informix website I can read about this? Axel