How to enable automatic compression when loading empty table
Loading an empty table with compressed data is not trivial. In order for Informix to build the compression dictionary, the table must contain some data but in the case of an empty table, there is no...
View ArticleOpenAdmin Tool (aka OAT) is now installed as part of CSDK
For those who have not heard, the OpenAdmin Tool (aka OAT) is now included with the CSDK product. This has made OAT much simpler to install. In addition, the latest improvement no longer requires a...
View ArticleDetermining the Efficiency of the Informix Virtual Processors
The efficiency column in the onstat -g glo output (see below) is an indicator of how well the oninits are being scheduled by the operating system. If the efficiency is to low for the cpu vps the...
View ArticleHow to create a stored procedure which emulates a very fast dbexport in dirty...
This is a simple stored procedure which will export the current database to the specified directory without locking the database. While this is a very simple procedure it can be extend very easily to...
View ArticleArticle on the OpenAdmin Tool Health Advisor
If you want to read a good article about the OpenAdmin Tool Health Advisor see the following http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1303openadmin/index.html. This article is a...
View ArticleMobile OpenAdmin Tool
Use Mobile OAT to monitor on your smartphone a single IBM Informix server or a group of Informix servers. For example, you can view the online log and information about users such as commits,...
View ArticleEnsuring logical logs do not get to old.
If a user wants to ensure a log is closed after a specific duration, the following procedure and database scheduler task will accomplish this task. Check to see how old the current logical logs is If...
View ArticleHow to find out the current Isolation Level
To acquire the isolation level the following store procedure will return a number representative the isolation level in the table below. CREATE FUNCTION Get_Isolation_Level() RETURNING INTEGER RETURN...
View ArticleOpenAdmin Tool Resources
OpenAdmin tool is growing very fast now that the newer version has been release. While the newest version was released with version 12.10 product, it will operate against all version 11 and 12 Informix...
View ArticleInformix Chat with the Lab – Query Optimizer Enhancements in 12.1
Event Date: Jul 25, 2013 Event Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (Central Time) Presented By: Jerry Keesee – Director, IBM Informix Database Development (IBM), Bingjie Miao – Software...
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Informix Database Server integrated with Shaspa smart gateway solution on an...
Today (September 10, 2013) at IFA, the consumer electronics unlimited, Shaspa introduced their “In Home” Bridge which acts as a central hub for data from a large selection of sensors and actuators such...
View ArticleInformix now support JSON and BSON datatypes natively
The release of Informix 12.10.xC2 on September 13, 2013 has some great new features leading off with support for JSON and BSON types natively in the server along with collections. This native support...
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Informix Selling on an ARM product
Thought this was interesting enough to share. The first ARM product for IBM Informix and there is “IBM Informix Software” printed right on the box (along with Tatung and Shaspa). This is cool!!
View ArticleInformix at the Information OnDemand Conference
While the conference is not over, there have been some great things that I have seen and heard at the conference. First there is a vendor, shaspa, who is displaying the full enterprises edition of...
View ArticleHybrid App Development with Informix JSON Listener
My experience with the Informix JSON Listener and Mongo PHP driver for app development was not what I expected. It was in fact easier and more pleasant than I thought it would be. I had some experience...
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