Re: Update statistics bug
Posted in 1998
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Peter Tashkoff wrote: > Hi Art > I wish I could reply to your '125 years' of working with databases, but I lack the wit to do it justice. OOPS! While sometimes it FEELS like 125 years I did mean to type 15 years. Since for some reason I had not seen my own posting yet, nor the several witty replies, I had to go to the IIUG archive this AM and see what I had done. I got a really good laugh out of the replies. > On another tack. > I tend to print out and save just about everything you post, and I expect that I am not the only one. > Have you ever considered putting all of this wisdom together in a book? > Something like 'Advanced Informix Admin and Tuning.' > No disrespect to Elisabeth, but her book only goes so far. A thought that I have kicked around for a while. Meantime, I am giving a talk to the New York Informix Users Group on January 23 on this subject and Tim Schaeffer has asked if I could turn those notes into an article for his netzine. So look there in the near future. > If you have been on the point of considering doing something along these > lines, please do, I know the publishing houses are always looking for > authors. You can count me as an advance sale. Thanks for the encouragement and kind words. Oh, and keep the kiwi coming! Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com