Re: Data loss, vacuum, transaction wrap-around

Jeff wrote:
> 
> On Feb 20, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 
> > My last company's experience with Oracle support still leaves me
> > questioning that claim.  They basically got "don't do that then or 
> > move to
> > the newest major revision" when they had a construct which caused the
> > server to stop responding.
> 
> For the record, that is the kind of support I've got from Informix in 
> the past.
> Even for issues where the db would reliably return invalid results.
> 
> What is great is I have one informix db that I cannot take a backup of 
> without causing several DAYS of downtime.   Their solution: Do an 
> in-place upgrade and hope it works.  Yes, they actually said "And 
> hopefully it will work. You'll need to take a backup to be safe" "But I 
> can't take a backup.  That is the point of this call" "Oh, well... 
> umm.. it SHOULD work!"

"Uh, did we mention we are sure it would work in DB2."  :-)

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