Re: New submission
Posted in 1998
Thanks, Art, for your efforts. I, for one, have certainly been plagued by
the problems your utilities address.
Milton Vidrine
Art S. Kagel wrote:
> My new submission, utils2_ak, is now available on the IIUG Software
> Repository. It includes an updated version of dostats.ec that permits
> one to specify resolution and confidence values to the UPDATE
> STATISTICS commands that are generated as well as six new utilities.
>
> Highlights:
>
> o printfreeB.ec, reports the space actually used and free
> within a table's (and its indexes) allocated extents like oncheck -pT
> but without locking the table.
> o myschema.ec, like dbschema but does not need exclusive access to the
> table. (What a novel idea, to be able to get a schema on a
> production database!)
> o listdb7.ec, reports on what databases, and optionally tables, exist
> in an instance. Options report dbspace, logging mode, owner, date
> of creation, etc. Great for tracking down what tables reside in a
> particular dbspace.
> o dbcopy.ec, quickly copy data from onw table/database to another even
> if the two databases have DIFFERENT LOGGING modes! VERY FAST!
>
> Hope someone finds these useful. Thanks to Jonathon Leffler for help
> making the source far more portable. Enjoy.
>
> Art S. Kagel