Re: Anyone using Illustra?

On Mon, 20 May 1996, Amanda Coles wrote: > Seth Grimes wrote: > > > > "Jesse T. Beveridge" <rastaman@dti.net> writes: > > > > > I'm pretty new to Illustra, (I came from the Sybase world) and I > > >can't figure out how to create a temporary table!?! )-: > > > > Just create a table and drop it when you're done with it. > > > > >Also can some one point me to some Illustra resources. (No books in > > >print yet). > > > > http://www.illustra.com and the mailing lists illustra-users and > > illustra-announce to which you can subscribe by sending to majordomo@ > > illustra.com. The proper Usenet forum might be comp.databases.informix > > since Illustra is now owned by Informix and is being merged into Informix's > > universal server. > > > > Seth > > -- > > > > Seth Grimes -- grimes@access.digex.net -- http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes > > > I am also new to illustra and would be grateful if someone could tell me > how I could get hold of a user manual etc. > > EMAIL me at ACOLES@DRA.HMG.GB > > Thankyou > > Amanda > > There is a book by Mike Stonebraker on Object-Relational DBMSs (in fact it's really a discussion about Illustra): Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave M. Stonebraker with D. Moore Morgan-Kaufmann, 1996 ISBN 1558603972 See: http://literary.com/mkp/pages/3972/ for info about the book. Regards, Akmal. _ ___________________________________ //)| | / / | http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/ | _( (_ | mailto:akmal@sarc.city.ac.uk | (((\\ \\>|_/()_______________________________| (\\\\\\\\ \\_/ / \\ / \\ _/ "If I hear the phrase 'everything is an object' once more, / / I think I will scream." /___/ - Mike Stonebraker (1988)