Barrie Shaw, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts Remote Database Administration Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:54:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://virtual-dba.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-VirtualDBA-favicon-32x32.png Barrie Shaw, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts 32 32 Informix v11.70 End of Support (EOS) https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-v11-70-end-of-support/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-v11-70-end-of-support/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:34:49 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=37837 Informix 11.70 database versions will be out of support as of September 30, 2020. For Informix users, this means IBM/HCL is discontinuing security updates, patches, and other services (even if you have an existing maintenance contract). For the Informix DBA, this signals a situation they never want to be in, where our database platform is […]

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]]> https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-v11-70-end-of-support/feed/ 0 Informix Error -908: Attempt to connect to database server (<dbservername>) failed https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-error-908-attempt-to-connect-to-database-server-failed/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-error-908-attempt-to-connect-to-database-server-failed/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:52:42 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=36363 The Informix -908 error is returned when an attempted connection to an Informix server is unsuccessful. The vagueness of the message can be frustrating, but knowing what to look for can help to pinpoint the problem and resolve the connection issues. When setting up an Informix instance, one required piece is the sqlhosts file. The […]

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]]> https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-error-908-attempt-to-connect-to-database-server-failed/feed/ 1 Informix Table and Index Reorganization https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-table-and-index-reorganization/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/informix-table-and-index-reorganization/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:00:17 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=28775 Online Defragmentation Do you have large tables that contain too many extents but haven’t been able to schedule a maintenance window to reorganize? With the release of Informix 11.70, IBM introduced a new defragmentation utility that lets you reorganize a table or index online while the table is in use. In a blog post that […]

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