There's a children book that I used to read to my kids. It was about a boy that was laying around on the grass when he say a fly go by. What followed was a bunch of animals chasing each other.

Lately, I took a break from blogging (I hope you've noticed!), like a little boy laying on the grass, enjoying a sunny day. During that time, IDS 11.50xC6 came out. Here are a few interesting features:

• External table: an SQL interface to files to allow for very fast load and unload.
• XA transactions on secondary  servers
• Backup on the RSS server: You can make an archive of an instance on an RSS server
• Dynamic listener threads: You can start, stop, and restart listener threads for the soctcp or tlitcp protocols without interupting existing connections.

There are also enhancements to the MERGE statement and the attach/detach capability among other thing. You can find out more about the xC6 release in the release notice