Re: Informix Database Admin Guide...Out of Date ?

In fact Joe Lumbley is working on a NEW Edition of this book to bring it up-to-date. The Common Sense aspects of the job never change however... Learn a couple of Axioms: 1) You can't do everything for everyone...Learn to prioritize or escalate things that compete for your time to your boss and let him decide which one you work on (and let him inform the parties of HIS decisions...) 2) If you make a commitment - Follow up on it...(I.E. Say what you are going to do and do what you say...) Rob Vorbroker Phone: 513/583-9888 Vorbroker Consulting FAX: 513/583-9932 www.vorbroker.com robv@vorbroker.com Neil Truby wrote in message <36125D39.5CEB@netcomuk.co.uk>... >Clint Good wrote: > >Do you mean the Joe Lumbley book? In which case, it is out-of-date. A >lot of the stuff has changed in version 7. However, the Lumb;ey book >does have a lot of general common sense that transcends versions and >ecen to an extent vendor! > >I believe I read somewhere that he's working on an update for v7. > >BTW, the Informix manuals themselves are excellent. > >Neil Truby >Londis Holdings >London, UK