Re: Informix versus oracle Answered: red (solid confidence) — Original question (Vincento Harris asking for a good introductory Informix book) is only quoted, not archived as its own message; the visible thread is purely an opinion debate about manual/documentation quality with no book ever recommended.

Advisory only.

Posted in 2003

Mark D. Stock — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:09:37 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Daniel Morgan wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > >>Vincento Harris wrote: >> >> >>>Is anyone willing to recommend a good book I can use to start with in >>>Informix >>> >>>As usual your ideas are very welcome >> >>The manuals, definitely. They're much easier to read than Oracle's. :-) >> >>Try somewhere off www.ibm.com/informix ... > > > You mean they only use very small words? ;-) > > All manuals are terrible. The only thing worth discussing is third-party > books. I think you've just proved that you haven't read the informix manuals. When you do, let us know what you think, or were you just being a troll? Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+

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Daniel Morgan — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:29:26 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Mark D. Stock" wrote: > Daniel Morgan wrote: > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > > > >>Vincento Harris wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Is anyone willing to recommend a good book I can use to start with in > >>>Informix > >>> > >>>As usual your ideas are very welcome > >> > >>The manuals, definitely. They're much easier to read than Oracle's. :-) > >> > >>Try somewhere off www.ibm.com/informix ... > > > > > > You mean they only use very small words? ;-) > > > > All manuals are terrible. The only thing worth discussing is third-party > > books. > > I think you've just proved that you haven't read the informix manuals. > When you do, let us know what you think, or were you just being a troll? > > Cheers, > -- > Mark. > > +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ > | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| > | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| > | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| > | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| > | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| > | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| > +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ ;-) has meaning. I have current copies of manuals for all commercial RDBMS products. And I am unimpressed. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)

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David Williams — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:59:47 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3EE8E2A6.A64F6EE8@exxesolutions.com... > > ;-) has meaning. > > I have current copies of manuals for all commercial RDBMS products. And I am > unimpressed. What do you mean? The Informix manuals won awards! > -- > Daniel Morgan > http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp > damorgan@x.washington.edu > (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply) > >

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Daniel Morgan — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:11:50 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

David Williams wrote: > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@exxesolutions.com> wrote in message > news:3EE8E2A6.A64F6EE8@exxesolutions.com... > > > > ;-) has meaning. > > > > I have current copies of manuals for all commercial RDBMS products. And I > am > > unimpressed. > > What do you mean? The Informix manuals won awards! > > > -- > > Daniel Morgan > > http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp > > damorgan@x.washington.edu > > (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply) > > > > My mother has won awards. I've won awards. No doubt you and just about everyone else has. But hand those manuals to someone new with a background in another product and see how productive they are? Look at all of the questions asked here at c.d.i. or at any of the other usenet groups about these products. The manuals are far better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick ... but not great. We have decimated the English language. To be a hero no longer means to demonstrate heroism ... merely to be an innocent victim. Award winning similarly doesn not mean what one might wish it did. The phrase has been gutted by the fact that everyone gets awards. Even Microsoft gets awards. Awards don't make Windows stable and awards don't make documentation good. I think we've beaten this one to death. Don't you? -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)