Re: any good books on informix

Joe Lumbley wrote: > > Art S. Kagel (kagel@bloomberg.net) wrote: > : There are good books on Administration from Carlton Doe, Madison Pruett, > : Joe Lumbley, Glenn Miller, and Elizabeth Suto (the second addition of > : Joe Lumbley's book is due out in February BTW) on application > : development for Informix by Art Taylor, Robert D. Schneider, Cathy Kipp, > : and others. > Actually, Prentice-Hall has given me a 12/16/98 printing date, so the latest > version of the Survival Guide should hit the shelves by Christmas. > The book will cover versions through 7.30, with coverage of NT, graphical > utilities, and an extensive section on debugging. The CD will include > all the scripts, Lester Knutsen's great SMI SQL series, as well as an HTML > data dictionary for the sysmaster database. The CDROM will also include a > CBT course covering 7.X basics, as well as the Adobe *.pdf DBA and Performance > manuals from Informix. The book is probably orderable now, since PH has been > selling the book before the printing is finished. Yes I noticed the new shipping date on www.barnesandnoble.com later, www.amazon.com still shows the original 1999 shipping date but does show Joe's book as orderable. > Enjoy. > > Joe > > BTW.....Anybody else want to hassle Art until he agrees to write a book too? > Come on Art, it's your turn in the barrel.... ;) OK you guys tell me what to write about that Joe and Carlton and Elizabeth and Glenn and ... have missed and that I could add to the 30+ pages in my TechNotes article and I'll consider it. :-) Art S. Kagel