Informix - dbaccess vs dbexport to export tables to text files
Currently, we are using the dbaccess utility to export all tables in the Informix database to text files. These are used to "mirror" the database multiple Windows machines running MSSQL Server on a nightly basis.
I was looking into the dbexport utility to see if it would be a viable solution. The text export takes almost 2 hours and I'm looking to shrink that time down if possible. However, I'm not familiar with these Informix utilities and we do not have a test environment for this... so I'm wondering what exactly is the output from dbexport? Is there an option to export each individual table to a text file with dbexport? Thank you.
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Currently, we are using the dbaccess utility to export all tables in the Informix database to text files. These are used to "mirror" the database multiple Windows machines running MSSQL Server on a nightly basis.
I was looking into the dbexport utility to see if it would be a viable solution. The text export takes almost 2 hours and I'm looking to shrink that time down if possible. However, I'm not familiar with these Informix utilities and we do not have a test environment for this... so I'm wondering what exactly is the output from dbexport? Is there an option to export each individual table to a text file with dbexport? Thank you.
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Currently, we are using the dbaccess utility to export all tables in the Informix database to text files. These are used to "mirror" the database multiple Windows machines running MSSQL Server on a nightly basis.
I was looking into the dbexport utility to see if it would be a viable solution. The text export takes almost 2 hours and I'm looking to shrink that time down if possible. However, I'm not familiar with these Informix utilities and we do not have a test environment for this... so I'm wondering what exactly is the output from dbexport? Is there an option to export each individual table to a text file with dbexport? Thank you.
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Currently, we are using the dbaccess utility to export all tables in the Informix database to text files. These are used to "mirror" the database multiple Windows machines running MSSQL Server on a nightly basis.
I was looking into the dbexport utility to see if it would be a viable solution. The text export takes almost 2 hours and I'm looking to shrink that time down if possible. However, I'm not familiar with these Informix utilities and we do not have a test environment for this... so I'm wondering what exactly is the output from dbexport? Is there an option to export each individual table to a text file with dbexport? Thank you.
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