Informix books - better than an FAQ
The enclosed is a list of Informix related books - I just compiled it from saved off messages from this group. The basic list is actually maintained by Walt Hultgren at Emory - but I stuck in comments where I found them. And added a book or two. My apologies in advance to the netters whose comments I stole from previous messages to stick after a book title. j. ------------------------- Books Related to Informix, WingZ and General Database Topics Entries are formatted with the following information: o Title (and Volume or Edition number, if appropriate) Author(s) Publisher, Date, ISBN, Pages, Price Some entries may not be complete. If you know of any additions or changes that should be made to this list, please send them to walt@rmy.emory.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Informix o An Informix-4GL Tutorial Paul Mahler Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-464173-6 o Building Applications Using a 4GL - Second Edition Mark G. Sobell Sobell Associates, 1986, ISBN 0-937613-00-2 (Sobell Associates Inc. P.O.Box 1335 Menlo Park, CA 94026-1335 (415)322-1891) "Here's one that I've seen used in a college course, and which I give to programmers new to 4gl. It is *very* introductory, though, and if newbies look at any of our existing code they quickly find lots of stuff which this book does not cover." - Clem Akins "For more in-depth work I mostly like the Informix 4gl manuals, especially:" o Informix 4GL by Example Part No. 000-7022 July 1991 Informix Software, Inc. 4100 Bohannon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 These examples can provide some code and style guidelines for a shop of programmers with disparate styles." - Clem Akins o Data Processing in UNIX Using Informix SQL, ESQL/C, C-ISAM and Turbo R. S. Tare McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-062885-8 Price: $8.95 for the International Edition (Ramsub) o Informix-SQL, A Tutorial and Reference Tony Lacy-Thompson Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-465121-9, UKP 19.95, US$ 28.80 o Using Informix-SQL - Second Edition Jonathan Leffler Addison Wesley ISBN 0-201-56509-9 "It contains a lot more than Ace reports and is worth having as a reference beside the Informix manuals, of course the author is known as a regular writer here on the net and may be happy to answer any questions arising from the text." - Tom Hogarty "I felt the stock Informix documentation was pretty opaque. I found "Using Informix-SQL, Second Edition" by Jonathan Leffler in a local computer superstore and have been very pleased with it. Much more approachable than the Informix manuals. I dont have any books to recommend if its not ISQL that you're intereested in. For installation and management, I ended up taking the Informix training course, which did a good job of covering things." - Joe Matuscak WingZ o WingZ Navigator Informix Software, Inc., Part # 9833B General Database o A Visual Introduction to SQL J. Harvey Trimble, Jr. David Chappell, ISBN 0-471-61684-21 o Concurrency Control & Recovery in Database Systems P. A. Bernstein, V. Hadzilacos & N. Goodman Addsion-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10715-5 o Database, A Primer C. J. Date Addison-Wesley o Fundamentals of Data Normalization Alan F. Dutka & Howard H. Hanson Addison-Wesley o Introduction to Database Systems, Volume I C. J. Date Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-14201-5 o Introduction to Database Systems, Volume II C. J. Date Addison-Wesley o Relational Database Writings 1985-1989 C. J. Date Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-50881-8 o Relational Database: Selected Writings C. J. Date Addison-Wesley o Using SQL James R. Groff & Paul N. Weinberg Osborne McGraw-Hill o SQL The Standard Handbook Stephen Cannan & Gerard Otten McGraw Hill Book Company ISBN 0-07-707664-8 "The following [preceeding] book is good, but only if you know some "SQL" - it serves as a reference book. It is based on the new SQL standard ISO 9075:1992(E) and is therefore quite relevant (i.e. not archaic)." - Jayesh Thakrar Finally Informix Press (Prentice Hall) has just announced 4 books: Informix Online Performance Tuning - Elizabeth Suto The Informix Database Administrator's Survival Guide - Joe Lumbley Programming Informix SQL/4GL: A Step-by-Step Approach - Cathy Kipp Advanced Informix-4gl Programming - Art Taylor These last 4 hit the shelves in September. Also newly released will be the 4GL by example, SQL Reference and SQL Tutorial manuals from Informix. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| "They call her aunt only when jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | her cucumbers are ripe." (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | - Burmese folk wisdom _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________