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- From: rjsparks@lstar31.tamu.edu (Robert Sparks)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: group projects in mode ANSI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.194100.26039@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:41:00 GMT
- Sender: rjsparks@lstar31 (Robert Sparks)
- Organization: loanstar
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- I would like comments on the "right" way to deal with the following:
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- We are using informix to manage a medium sized time-series database
- (right now it is 800 points hourly ). The best model we have found
- for this is one table per point (timestamp,value). We have analysis,
- QA, and reporting routines that munge these reports together. We chose
- to use mode ANSI for implicit transactions and better default access
- security.
-
- Now, the "ownername". restrictions of mode ANSI are biting us. To keep the
- programming bearable, we have chosen a uniform "owner" for the tables that
- the routines will touch. The problem is that sometimes these routines need
- to create a table (If a QA routine finds some bad data it needs to pump it
- out to a bad_table for that channel - if the table doesnt exist it will
- create it.) Creating that table with the mother approved "ownername" is
- turning out to be painful.
-
- This strikes me as a common scenario - what is the usual way of working with it?
-
- RjS
- rjsparks@loanstar.tamu.edu
-