Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: rkusenet <rkusenet_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:47:22 -0500
Message-ID: <c4hrge$2jakbh$1@ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de>

"Brian Peasland" <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>

> This onmode command must be Informix-specific, i.e. not part of a
> typical Unix distro.

yes, it is a informix tool only.

> Isn't this like double checkpointing, or did I miss something?

no it is not. checkpoint still occurs only once when the script issues onmode -c, overriding scheduled checkpoint.

> Why not just checkpoint more often than every 10 minutes?

of course it can checkpoint more often. It is a configurable parameter. Most informix installation set it in the range of 5 to 15 minutes. Received on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 13:47:22 CST