Re: online table update?

Posted in 1997

Richard Thomas — 6 Mar 1997 13:38:18 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

At 15:26 05/03/97 -0500, Ofer Inbar wrote: >I'm familiar with Oracle 7 but new to Informix 7. Hallelujah, he's seen the light!!! >The server in question will be serving data Web/CGI users, and will be >receiving updates from a remote site every few minutes. The remote >data will come in as comma delimited ASCII. > >1) Is there an Informix 7 equivalent of Oracle's SQL*Loader to load > this data in? dbload >2) Can the database continue serving data to the Web users while the > tables are being updated with the new data? Yes > -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu > -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ > Spam wastes aluminum and steel and causes high cholesterol, and kills pigs. > -- Ben Tober <tober@bbnplanet.com> on IRC, midnight on 20 May 1995 > Cheers, Richard. (no sig due to hurried move from Pine to Eudora!!)