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- From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
- Subject: Re: upgrade help
- Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:15:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <2i9NTB1w164w@cssnet.UUCP> david@cssnet.UUCP (J. David Schronce)
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- In <2i9NTB1w164w@cssnet.UUCP> J. David Schronce asks:
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- > I'm preparing to upgrade from Informix version 1.10 to 5.0 and have some
- > lingering questions that I can't seem to answer, so once again I bow
- > before the collected knowledge of the net and pray for enlightenment.
- >
- > We are migrating all our database work to either an Altos 10000 or 15000.
- > I will have 30 -40 Informix users on this system. MOST of them will be
- > inserting/updating data into the various tables.
- >
- > We are a manufacturing/sales organization so the data is inventory
- > levels, customer data, order_header, order_detail, shipping info, etc..
- > all interacting.
- >
- > In such an environment, do you think that th on-line engine is a
- > necessity, or is the SE engine equivelent to the task?
- > At this level of use, on the proscribed hardware, would the on-line
- > engine offer perceptibly faster access to data?
- > I suppose the REAL question is - Is online WORTH the $5000 difference as
- > compared to SE? - and why?
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- I can't answer all of you questions but we're a manufacturing company
- with sales and purchasing departments all
- inserting/updating/selecting a variety of tables. We use SE with
- I-Net. The DB is on a 486 tuned for quick disk access and the apps
- run on 2 386 boxes (with a third on the way RSN). We have about 20
- users and for the most part everything runs well and fast enough.
- Hving said that it could run fasted, but then if we all had a cray on
- the desk we'd still say it could run faster wouldn't we?
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