Re: Informix Documentation Available
Posted in 1996
Herschel Chandler <herschel@iui.com> wrote: :I am currently working on a project that uses an Informix Database. :It is a scenario where one of the vendors gets a cheap deal on Informix :if they don't require documentation. Apparently this also includes the :standard man pages. :I'm new to Informix. I've used Ingres in the past. :My immediate questions revolve around the use of the Informix version of :isql (/usr/informix/bin/isql). There's no man page so I don't even know :what parameters it can take. In the Ingres version I could pass a :username as a parameter that would run the query as the user. I can't :get the same parameter (-uuser) to work with this version. :Does anyone know of any online resources that I could access? :Preferably something I could print and take to work (since they don't :even have internet access there). :Oh -- This is on SCO Unix. :While I'm asking -- What about a good resource for SQL? I don't use it :enough to remember all the syntax off the top of my head and end up :playing around until I get it right. Go buy the manual. Anything else is simply too crazy to be true. Informix doesn't supply any unix man pages at all. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company