Join IIUG
 for   
 

Informix News
18 Nov 13 - ZDNet - Top 20 mobile skills in demand... Read
09 Sep 13 - telecompaper - Shaspa and Tatung have shown a new smart home platform at Ifa in Berlin. Powered by the IBM Informix software... Read
06 Sep 13 - IBM data magazine - Mission Accomplished - Miami, Florida will be the backdrop for the 2014 IIUG Informix Conference... Read
01 Feb 13 - IBM Data Magazine - Are your database backups safe? Lester Knutsen (IBM Champion) writes about database back up safety using "archecker"... Read
14 Nov 12 - IBM - IBM's Big Data For Smart Grid Goes Live In Texas... Read
3 Oct 12 - The Financial - IBM and TransWorks Collaborate to Help Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Achieve Supply Chain Efficiency... Read
28 Aug 12 - techCLOUD9 - Splunk kicks up a SaaS Storm... Read
10 Aug 12 - businessCLOUD9 - Is this the other half of Cloud monitoring?... Read
3 Aug 12 - IBM data management - Supercharging the data warehouse while keeping costs down IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) delivers superior performance for in-memory analytics processing... Read
2 Aug 12 - channelbiz - Oninit Group launches Pay Per Pulse cloud-based service... Read
28 May 12 - Bloor - David Norfolk on the recent Informix benchmark "pretty impressive results"... Read
23 May 12 - DBTA - Informix Genero: A Way to Modernize Informix 4GL Applications... Read
9 Apr 12 - Mastering Data Management - Upping the Informix Ante: Advanced Data Tools... Read
22 Mar 12 - developerWorks - Optimizing Informix database access... Read
14 Mar 12 - BernieSpang.com - International Informix User Group set to meet in San Diego... Read
1 Mar 12 - IBM Data Management - IIUG Heads West for 2012 - Get ready for sun and sand in San Diego... Read
1 Mar 12 - IBM Data Management - Running Informix on Solid-State Drives.Speed Up Database Access... Read
26 Feb 12 - BernieSpan.com - Better results, lower cost for a broad set of new IBM clients and partners... Read
24 Feb 12 - developerWorks - Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Continuous Acceleration during Data Refresh... Read
6 Feb 12 - PRLOG - Informix port delivers unlimited database scalability for popular SaaS application ... Read
2 Feb 12 - developerWorks - Loading data with the IBM Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for Data Studio... Read
1 Feb 12 - developerWorks - 100 Tech Tips, #47: Log-in to Fix Central... Read
13 Jan 12 - MC Press online - Informix Dynamic Server Entices New Users with Free Production Edition ... Read
11 Jan 12 - Computerworld - Ecologic Analytics and Landis+Gyr -- Suitors Decide to Tie the Knot... Read
9 Jan 12 - planetIDS.com - DNS impact on Informix / Impacto do DNS no Informix... Read
8 Sep 11 - TMCnet.com - IBM Offers Database Solution to Enable Smart Meter Data Capture... Read
1 Aug 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Happy 10th anniversary to IBM and Informix... Read
8 Jul 11 - Database Trends and Applications - Managing Time Series Data with Informix... Read
31 May 11 - Smart Grid - The meter data management pitfall utilities are overlooking... Read
27 May 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Big data, big time ( Series data, warehouse acceleration, and 4GLs )... Read
16 May 11 - Business Wire - HiT Software Announces DBMoto for Enterprise Integration, Adds Informix. Log-based Change Data Capture... Read
21 Mar 11 - Yahoo! Finance - IBM and Cable&Wireless Worldwide Announce UK Smart Energy Cloud... Read
14 Mar 11 - MarketWatch - Fuzzy Logix and IBM Unveil In-Database Analytics for IBM Informix... Read
11 Mar 11 - InvestorPlace - It's Time to Give IBM Props: How many tech stocks are up 53% since the dot-com boom?... Read
9 Mar 11 - DBTA - Database Administration and the Goal of Diminishing Downtime... Read
2 Feb 11 - DBTAs - Informix 11.7 Flexible Grid Provides a Different Way of Looking at Database Servers... Read
27 Jan 11 - exactsolutions - Exact to Add Informix Support to Database Replay, SQL Monitoring Solutions... Read
25 Jan 11 - PR Newswire - Bank of China in the UK Works With IBM to Become a Smarter, Greener Bank... Read
12 Oct 10 - Database Trends and Applications - Informix 11.7: The Beginning of the Next Decade of IBM Informix... Read
20 Sep 10 - planetIDS.com - ITG analyst paper: Cost/Benefit case for IBM Informix as compared to Microsoft SQL Server... Read
20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - IBM Informix Choice Edition V11.50 helps deploy low-cost scalable and reliable solutions for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows... Read
20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - Software withdrawal: Elite Support for Informix Ultimate-C Edition... Read
24 May 10 - eWeek Europe - IBM Supplies Database Tech For EU Smart Grid... Read
23 May 10 - SiliconIndia - IBM's smart metering system allows wise use of energy... Read
21 May 10 - CNET - IBM to help people monitor energy use... Read
20 May 10 - ebiz - IBM Teams With Hildebrand To Bring Smart Metering To Homes Across Britain... Read
19 May 10 - The New Blog Times - Misurare il consumo energetico: DEHEMS è pronto... Read
19 May 10 - ZDNet - IBM software in your home? Pact enables five-city smart meter pilot in Europe... Read
17 March 10 - ZDNet (blog) David Morgenstern - TCO: New research finds Macs in the enterprise easier, cheaper to manage than... Read
17 March 2010 - Virtualization Review - ...key components of Big Blue's platform to the commercial cloud such as its WebSphere suite of application ser vers and its DB2 and Informix databases... Read
10 February 2010 - The Wall Street Journal - International Business Machines is expanding an initiative to win over students and professors on its products. How do they lure the college crowd?... Read


End of Support Dates

IIUG on Facebook IIUG on Twitter

[ View Thread ] [ Post Response ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

IDS Forum

Re: Convert BYTE column to BLOB

Posted By: Art Kagel
Date: Friday, 31 March 2017, at 9:55 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Convert BYTE column to BLOB (Marcus Haarmann)

I've used a similar method:

- Create a new table with the BLOB type column

- Rename the original table

- Create a VIEW with the original name from a UNION of the two tables

(use the bytetoblob() function to map the byte column in the original table

to the new type in the view.

- Create INSTEAD OF triggers on the VIEW that redirect inserts, updates,

and deletes to the new table.

- Create a task that copies a row from the original table the new one

and deletes the original row.

- When the original table is empty, you can drop the view and the

original table and rename the new one if needed.

This method will allow you to roll in new apps that understand the new type
of the large object column immediately and copy the data in small batches
over time.

Art

Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
ASK Database Management
www.askdbmgt.com

Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions
and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am
associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do
those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any
entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Marcus Haarmann <marcus.haarmann@midoco.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we have done that before (converting byte to blob).
> But we did not do it in place, we added a new blob column with a different
> name to the table,
> ran an update script which converted the content (with a
> update tablename set newcol_blob = bytecolumn:blob where ....)
> and finally switched column names and and dropped the old byte column.
> That was done to a very large table and the conversion process was done
> in multiple steps (transactions).
> The benefit here is that the existing content is accessible while the
> conversion is
> taking place (for us it took like 20 hours).
> That is of course possible only if the content does not change while
> conversion takes place.
> We only had a short period when the columns were switched and the new
> column
> had some null values,
> because that were rows which were added only just some minutes before
> columns
> were switched.
> After a check that you have no null values, the old column can be dropped.
> In case you are heading to replication (HDR), do not forget to set the
> sblob
> transactional.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Marcus Haarmann
>
> Von: "DAVID GROVE" <david.grove@alaska.gov>
> An: "ids" <ids@iiug.org>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. März 2017 19:17:22
> Betreff: Convert BYTE column to BLOB [38827]
>
> Informix 12.10
> Solaris 10
>
> We have an old table with some photos that are stored as simple large
> objects
> (in a column type BYTE), and stored in the table. We would like to convert
> that column to hold smart large objects (column data type BLOB), and be
> stored
> in the default sbspace.
>
> I read the documentation, and, it appears that we could use ALTER TABLE.
> However, (I'm pretty sure) that would only effect the desired change for
> new
> data, and not the existing data. We want all the existing data to be
> converted, and to be moved (not just copied) to the default sbspace.
>
> Any suggestions on how to achieve this? Would it work to do a big UPDATE in
> which the column in question is SET to itself (and WHERE 1=1)?
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> Thank you.
>
> DG
>
>
> ************************************************************
> *******************
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>
> ************************************************************
> *******************
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>

--001a1148d220bfe143054c07280d

Messages In This Thread

[ View Thread ] [ Post Response ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

IDS Forum is maintained by Administrator with WebBBS 5.12.