Informix Tech Talks Replay: Informix Benchmarks on Cloud Systems - Updated! by Lester Knutsen This is a replay of the Informix Tech Talk on December 9, 2021. Description: This is an update to the presentation at the Informix 2021 Virtual Conference. - What is the Cloud? - Other Benchmarks, and Tools I Used - Case Study – Supporting Informix customers on the Cloud - Observations About Informix in the Cloud - Updated Benchmark Results - Updated Cost Benefit Review and Learnings - Updated Performance Tuning Recommendations on the Cloud

How do you use the command-line utilities to manage and monitor an Informix Server? We will discuss onstat, oncheck, and the new InformixHQ to manage your server.

How do you build databases and tables in Informix? We will discuss best practices for creating and managing databases and tables, partitioning, and database security. We will demonstrate object-oriented data types, using SQL to generate SQL Scripts and creating a Non-OS user for Informix database security.

How do you connect users and tools to an Informix Server from Windows, Unix, and the Web? We will discuss connections using Microsoft ODBC, Informix SDK, Java, PHP, DRDA, and other options. This is a Webcast reply from June 25, 2020.

How do you backup and restore an Informix Server? High Availability is crucial to a successful database. We will cover and demonstrate database backups, restores, and setting up High Availability Data Replication (HDR). This replay includes additional material on HDR setup and switching between Primary and Secondary Servers that is not covered in the original webcast.

Disk IO is often the performance bottleneck for databases, every transaction needs to get written safely to disk fast. How do you set up and configure the disk space for an Informix Server? What disk and RAID configurations provide the best performance and reliability?