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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
For someone who is new to Informix but has experience with other RDBMS's, this book is just what is needed. It overviews the Informix product line and gives detailed instructions for various tasks such as using ontape to perform a backup, understanding the onconfig parameters and much more. This book lives up to the UNLEASHED! family name. Thanks!
Published on July 24, 1998
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3.0 out of 5 stars
OK, but not to the usual standard of the "Unleashed" series
The book is organised into many topic-specific chapters, written by quite a number of different authors. The quality of the content and prose is therefore rather variable, and some subjects are covered to different depths by different authors, giving a rather disjointed feel. However most people, even Informix professionals, will find some things of value in this...
Published on July 5, 1998
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
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This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
For someone who is new to Informix but has experience with other RDBMS's, this book is just what is needed.It overviews the Informix product line and gives detailed instructions for various tasks such as using ontape to perform a backup, understanding the onconfig parameters and much more. This book lives up to the UNLEASHED! family name. Thanks!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well worth the time it takes to read it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
I'm primarily a developer, but I also do a little bit of DBA stuff. This book has lots of info for developers, and apparently lots for DBAs too -- it's the book our primary DBA recommended to me. If you need to know something about Informix, chances are it's explained in this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
lots of technical tips from experts !,
By A Customer
This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
This book is a great resource. It's not one to read cover to cover, but rather one to turn to when you have a question. It's helped me at work in critical situations.
3.0 out of 5 stars
OK, but not to the usual standard of the "Unleashed" series,
By A Customer
This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
The book is organised into many topic-specific chapters, written by quite a number of different authors. The quality of the content and prose is therefore rather variable, and some subjects are covered to different depths by different authors, giving a rather disjointed feel. However most people, even Informix professionals, will find some things of value in this book.The book comes with a CD-ROM containing a example scripts/SQL etc: these vary from the trivial to the very useful. Some sections, noticeably that on Tech Support, are next to useless to non-US readers, containing as they do information only applicable to that country. It leaves the impression the editors were either too ignorant or, more likely, too lazy to consider the fact that this is supposed to be an international publication.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Useless.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
This book offers NOTHING helpful to anyone who already has the Informix documentation. It tries to cover a lot of ground without going into any detail. Very disappointing, especially compared to the other books in the "... Unleashed" series.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Informix unleashed never should have be released,
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This review is from: Informix Unleashed (Hardcover)
If you have had experience with other relational databases. i.e. SQL Server, Sybase. You may be farmiliar with Unleashed books. This one is nothing like them. The enire books gives a general overview of Informix and 90% of the book covers the Informix-4GL There is little to no examples for SQL and was not worth the $40.00 I spent on it.
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