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From: bgolden@infmx.UUCP (Bernard Golden)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix Trashed My 386 ...
Message-ID: <913@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 15:53:43 GMT
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Reply-To: bgolden@infmx.UUCP (Bernard Golden)
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Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <9662@ihlpb.ATT.COM> skennedy@ihlpb.UUCP (S. Kennedy) writes:
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>Informix SQL just happily trashed my OS.  weeeeee.
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>What happened?  I haven't the foggiest idea, but trash it did.
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>On a side note, in Informix 4GL, why is the word "dirty" a reserved word, 
>but never described anywhere in the manuals as to it's use? A foreshadowing
>of something to come??

Dirty is a word used as part of a read mode in our Turbo database engine
(i.e., "dirty read"); therefore it can't be used in other parts of our
products.

I'm sorry about your problem -- did you contact our tech support folks?

-b














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