tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39232470424086089312024-02-18T21:59:19.894-08:00Technology New Update -aircraftpapercraft (0)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13066453128505785831noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-56727389896324320372012-09-06T16:26:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:45:41.513-07:00OAT: monitor dbspace usage / Monitorização de ocupação de dbspacesThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:I keep working with OAT and the database scheduler and It keeps causing me a very good impression. The fact is that we can really get a structured way to deal with typical issues. The example I'll put here in this article is trivial, and every serious DBA has dealt with it. So, in a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-79560579366483502272012-08-28T14:01:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:44:17.503-07:00Informix 11.70.xC2: It's out!This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish Version:It's been too long since my last post. The reason is the usual lack of time. Sorry for that...This is just a small post to let you know that Informix version 11.70.xC2 is being made available. It's already possible to get if from the Fix Central site (link on the right). The Information Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-17822626991010532022012-08-27T14:09:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:44:04.422-07:00Panther: Extending extents / Estendendo os extentsThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:Back to Panther... Although I'm not in the video on the right, I do love Informix. That doesn't mean I ignore some issues it has (or had in this particular case). One thing that always worries an Informix DBA is the number of extents in his tables. Why? Because it used to have a maximum Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-9482162303742549222012-08-26T16:23:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:45:01.287-07:00Novas edições de Informix: Saldos? [Verifique o novo artigo e nota final]Hi. In the last IIUG conference I had the chance of talking to some Brazilian members of the Informix community and they gave me the idea that there is an high demand for Portuguese content. When I started the blog I decided to do it in English (and that was not an easy decision because I'm not that confident about my English) for two main reasons:I wanted to reach a wider audienceI believe most Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-54448781969830766622012-08-23T21:19:00.001-07:002012-08-23T21:19:04.951-07:00aircraftpapercraftaircraftpapercraftUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-2379419178092431792012-08-19T15:50:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:45:24.053-07:00Panther: oninit -i ... ups... too late... or not / Panther: oninit -i ... ups... tarde de mais... ou nãoThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:I hope that this one will be quick... How many of us have tried to initialize (oninit -i) an already initialized instance by mistake? Personally I don't think I did it, but our mind tends to erase bad experiences :) But we have heard too many stories like this. A problem in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-80815825110581225702012-08-11T15:15:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:44:32.740-07:00Isolation level in WebSphereThis is probably the first post I'll write following a customer facing situation. Although there may be good reasons to don't write about some customer facing situation, I feel this may bring some value to the blog, and we never know when someone having the same problem finds the blog on Google... So this may be the first of several small and direct posts.Some time ago I had to go into a customerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-1991752506597274922012-08-05T03:34:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:44:46.106-07:00Informix in virtualized environmentsI recall that when I was around my 16 to 19 years old I was completely amazed by the possibility of running a different operating system inside a window on my system. At the time I was using a Commodore Amiga, and I had software to emulate Atari, Apple and MS-Dos systems. The first two used the same CPU as my native system, and the later was a complete emulation off an Intel x86 CPU. Because of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-50001168754403270442012-07-16T15:18:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:42:47.845-07:00New French Blog / Novo blog em FrancêsThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish Version:It's a great pleasure to present you another Informix blog. This one is written in French. The author is Eric Vercelletto, which was a colleague at Informix Portugal. Eric has a long history with Informix. We was working at Informix France and decided to join Informix Portugal mainly to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-8584169067599021352012-07-15T16:36:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:42:34.764-07:00Panther: Installing.... / Panther: Instalando....This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:Let's start the series by the beginning. The Informix installation method has been changing with some frequency. Panther is not an exception, at least under the covers. From a user perspective it didn't change too much... A bit of history: Why does IBM change this? Many old timers miss Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-33118777270431175692012-07-15T16:15:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:43:45.621-07:00Informix ROI webcastThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:Following the recent announcement of a Forrester study about Informix ROI, a webcast was held on December 13. The replay can be seen here:https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg&F=1002717&K=4ONYou can listen to it in webcast format and also Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-54704439412305469962012-07-13T15:56:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:43:27.800-07:00Informix Roadshow 2011 LisboaThis article is written only in Portuguese due to it's local natureEste artigo só está escrito em Português dada a natureza localVersão Portuguesa:A IBM vai realizar o Informix Roadshow 2011 no dia 3 de Maio, no IBM Fórum Lisboa (instalações da IBM no Parque das Nações).Será meio dia dedicado às últimas novidades da família Informix. Em particular:Funcionalidades da versão 11.7 (Panther)Informix Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-2396600457865309582012-07-08T16:40:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:43:14.744-07:00Stored procedure PDQ / PDQ dos procedimentosThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:A few years ago I needed to check if I had some stored procedures created with PDQ. Maybe some readers don't know, but if you have SET PDQPRIORITY n in your session before creating a procedure it will run with that PDQ. And that can cause abnormal resource consumption. In most cases Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-6935642635295622832012-07-02T06:05:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:43:00.876-07:00Panther: Instance schema / Schema da instânciaThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:This time I'll cover a little but helpful improvement in the dbschema utility. dbschema is the fastest way we have to extract DDL statements about our databases and tables. We can get the full database schema, or just for a table, view, synonym etc. It can also provide all the privilegesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-38075858636826176872012-06-25T17:14:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:40:18.092-07:00Informix making the world smarter...This article is written only in EnglishEste artigo apenas está disponível em InglêsAlthough I'm preparing some technical articles I'm happy to make a break to echo some good news...Informix is helping an IBM Partner, Centric Solutions, in making the world smarter. Bank of China is using it for a SWIFT application, that also helps to save trees.These are my words, but I think everyone agrees it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-77118843994472951782012-06-24T14:26:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:07.029-07:00UDRs: In transaction? / Em transacção?This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:IntroductionI just checked... This will be post 100!!!... I've never been so active in the blog... We have Panther (full of features that I still haven't covered), I did some work with OAT and tasks that I want to share, and besides that I've been trying some new things... Yes... Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-81188943133704275842012-06-17T17:30:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:40:34.035-07:00Informix Roadshow 2011 Lisboa (Agenda)This article is only written in Portuguese due to it's local natureEste artigo só está escrito em Português dada a sua natureza localA agenda do evento Informix Roadshow 2011 a realizar no próximo dia 3 de Maio nas instalações da IBM é:AGENDA:9:45 Registo e Boas Vindas10.00 – 10.15 Discover the Next Decade of Informix at IBMJuan Brogeras - SWG Information Management Sales Director SPGI10.15 – Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-11715955619582704992012-06-12T13:42:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.081-07:00Web applications.... Food for thoughtThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:A very short article... Take it as food for thought... I was just using Facebook and noticed that I was getting notifications that I cannot really see if I click on them. What has this to do with Informix' Nothing.... But I can speculate that it has to do with mySQL used by Facebook. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-71752232992728642932012-06-04T05:39:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:40:47.763-07:00HP-UX: What now? / E agora?This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:You know I usually stick to Informix related topics, but a few weeks ago something was announced that has to make us think... As we all know by now, Oracle announced that future versions of their software products will not support HP-UX running on Intel Itanium chips.Why do we have to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-12264507889586848242012-05-26T14:45:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.081-07:00Informix 11.70.xC5: It's available / Já está disponívelThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está disponível em Inglês e PortguêsEnglish version:The new fixpack of Informix 11.70 (xC5) is available and the Infocenter documentation was just updated as well as the PDF sets of manuals.Taken directly from the release notes the new features and functionalities are (comments added after the bullet items):AdministrationPlan Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-29465123948460037522012-05-08T08:00:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.081-07:00Informix Warehouse Accelerator: News / NovidadesThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish VersionThis is just a very short note to mention a blog post from Martin Muerderer on his excellent blog dedicated to Informix Warehouse Accelerator. He warns us that recent Linux versions (with libstdc++ 4.6) will cause problems for IWA. At startup (ondwa start) the user will get errors likeAn Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-44793998664660476912012-05-05T06:44:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.081-07:00In memory DBMS / DBMS em memóriaThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish Version:If you've been paying attention lately to the DBMS market you may have noticed that a lot of new things are hapening around in-memory and column stores databases. A set of papers are available from the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin here: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-75587140762835353262012-04-30T18:04:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.082-07:00Benchmarks: Some thoughts / Alguns pensamentosThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:DisclaimerAlthough I have a perfectly clear disclaimer on the right side of the blog, I'd like to start this article by re-enforcing that disclaimer. Everything I'll write here are my own thoughts and in no way represent my employer view or position. It's probable also that the ideas Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-1895212481574637222012-04-27T17:23:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.082-07:00Best practices survey / Inquérito sobre boas práticasThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:The Informix Documentation Team has just setup another survey. This time the subject is best practices. They want to know how and where would you expect and wish to find these and the subjects you'd be more interested in. The survey takes no more than 5m, so it's a great way to tell themUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923247042408608931.post-77075545799933967892012-04-26T17:39:00.000-07:002012-09-07T23:41:18.082-07:00IIUG 2012: Presentations / ApresentaçõesThis article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:The 2012 IIUG conference has just taken place this week in San Diego. The echos around the net and social media are very positive. And as usual, the IIUG made available for download the presentations of this year's conference. You can find them in the IIUG member area on the IIUG websiteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0