Re: Post + Pre Informix v.6

Amanda Walters wrote: > What are the differences between Informix pre version 6, and today's version > 7? Would I be right in thinking that the differences are confined to the > introduction of virtual processors, threads (i.e. DSA) and the renaming of > utilities to "on..." from "tb...."? No, you wouldn't be right. Besides multi-threading, there are many other changes, such as: - Ability to fragment tables across multiple dbspaces - Ability to allocate memory separately for DSS-type queries - New archive/restore utilities - High-performance data loader - Replication (two types) - New built-in functions - Indexes which can be traversed both directions - Sysmaster database - Global language support - Many new tunable parameters - Read-ahead cache - Ability to keep running with a down dbspace - Support for more chunks - Different sized logical logs That's just what I remember off the top of my head. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Grounded in Palo Alto, living on M&M's (plain)