INFORMIX-ONLINE DYNAMIC SERVER, VERSION 7.1, IS NOW AVAILABLE
REPLY-TO: angelas@informix.com In case some of you are wondering about INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server, version 7.10, here are the facts. We recently announced the availability of the newest release of INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server, version 7.10. In addition to the new features and performance enhancements we have also included maintenance for problems reported against INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server, version 6.0, in this latest release. No separate maintenance offering will be provided for version 6.0. Included below is a detailed list of product improvements which are included with this release. Best regards, Angela Sanchez Informix Customer Services ______________________________________________________________ INFORMIX-ONLINE DYNAMIC SERVER, VERSION 7.1, IS NOW AVAILABLE The latest release of parallel database technology adds greater scalability, extended high availability, and increased system management capabilities. Customer benchmark tests confirm dramatic performance increases over rival database servers. OnLine Dynamic Server, version 7.1, includes all the features of version 7.0, including: * Parallel Data Query (PDQ) - Enables significant performance increases for complex queries, batch processing, and database maintenance operations, especially for very large databases. PDQ enables tasks such as scans, sorts, joins, aggregates, index builds, backups, recovery, updates, inserts and deletes to be processed in parallel. * Database Partitioning - Provides table and index partitioning for optimal parallel processing performance and online manageability of very large databases. * Dynamic System Configuration - Allows for high availability through online tuning and reconfiguration of database and server processes. * Memory Grant Manager - Enables users to dynamically allocate system resources given varying system workloads. * New GUI database administration tools - Improved system manageability through the provision of GUI-based utilities and event alarm mechanisms. * Improved System Availability - Allows applications to be tolerant to server or disk failure by finding available system resources, and enables database administration tasks to be done online, rather than requiring system downtime. * Verified resolution of over 134 reported 6.0 defects. * 100% capability with previous versions of INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server. OnLine's Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA) also offers transparency to existing applications enabling customers to take advantage of DSA's superior performance without having to change a single line of code. DSA's true multithreading allows the system to efficiently respond to multiple user requests, providing the scalability to handle more users on a given system. THESE FEATURES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN Q2 1995: * Parallel Load - Enables fast loading of large amounts of data especially useful for data warehouse applications and distributed replication. * Discrete Distributed Data Replication - Extends current high availability replication capabilities with additional support for multisite replication. ______________________________________________________________ -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com