Fw: Books on INFORMIX-SQL

Informix Unleashed, also have two electronic books included in the CD-ROM, "SQL (PDF Format)" and "Unix (HTML)". There are some chapters about SQL as well. >On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Malcolm Weallans wrote: > >> Does anybody know if there are any books on the specific topic of >> INFORMIX-SQL other than the ones by Jonathan Leffler and Tony >> Lacy-Thompson. A training centre I teach for has just started giving away >> free books with courses and they are looking for a modern book on ISQL. > >Obviously, this is a biassed view... > >Well, apart from the fact that Using Informix-SQL doesn't discuss the more >recent features of the engines (it assumes you are using SE and is current >for version 4.10), what did you want in a more recent book? AFAIK, there >aren't any, unless you count Informix Unleashed (and I don't know how much >of ISQL is covered in there) and it's like. Really and truly, Using >Informix-SQL 2nd Edition is up to date. The only items it doesn't cover >are things like GLS support, which are at least as much a property of the >engine as of ISQL per se. I've periodically considered whether it needs >updating, but there is very little to be updated. > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> >Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN >Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn > >