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AdministeringIn addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administrationThese topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
High-Performance Loader User's GuideThe describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix® databases.
Define formatsThis section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
Fixed-length records
Create a fixed format that includes Ext type or Simple LO dataYou can organize the Ext Type or Simple LO data in a fixed-format data file with fixed-length data or inline data.
Fixed-length dataWhen you designate a field as an Ext Type String or Ext Type Binary data type, you specify that the data is going occupy a fixed amount of space, similar to the behavior of a fixed-length Chars data type. With fixed-length data format, you must specify the number of bytes that the field occupies in the record.

Fixed-length data

When you designate a field as an Ext Type String or Ext Type Binary data type, you specify that the data is going occupy a fixed amount of space, similar to the behavior of a fixed-length Chars data type. With fixed-length data format, you must specify the number of bytes that the field occupies in the record.

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