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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Do you like your UNIX RDBMS?
Message-ID: <114@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 02:34:21 GMT
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In article <May.30.18.32.22.1989.943@yes.rutgers.edu] emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes:
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]The problem with Embedded SQL is that is super lousy for browsing thru' a 
]database.  Suppose you issue a query and there are 1000 matching records.
]Are you aware that ALL the current ESQL implementations require that you
]WAIT FOR THE 1000 RECORDS TO BE FOUND EVEN BEFORE YOU CAN VIEW THE 1ST ONE?
]Thus your client will be FORCED to wait for up to 5 minutes before he/she 
]gets a response from a simple query!
This can be gotten around with Informix Turbo, although it requires a
sneaky trick that I don't remember off the top of my head.
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