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!"
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