Informix Books

This is a list of books and other non-periodical publications related to Informix andGeneral Database topics. Entries are formatted with the following information:

• Title (and Volume or Edition number, if appropriate)
  Author(s)
  Publisher, Date, ISBN, Pages

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• Books on Informix
• General Database Books
• IBM RedBooks

• IBM eBook: Big Data, Big Potential - How IBM DB2 and IBM Informix software provides a foundation to capitalize on the big potential of big data.
• Administering Informix Dynamic Server on Windows NT
  Carlton Doe
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1999, ISBN 0-13-080533-5
  Synopsis.
• Advanced INFORMIX-4GL Programming
  Art Taylor
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press,1994, ISBN 0-13-301318-9
• Informix Handbook
  Ron M. Flannery
  Release date Q4 1999Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 0-13-012247-5
  A comprehensive reference to Informix products.
  See its Web site for complete details.
• An Informix-4GL Tutorial
  Paul Mahler
  Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-464173-6
  No longer in print.
• Building Applications Using a 4GL - Second Edition
  Mark G. Sobell
  Sobell Associates, 1986, ISBN 0-937613-00-2
  
• Building Datablades for Informix Universal Server
  Michael Keeler, Joseph Godfrey
  Release date December 1998Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1999, ISBN 0-13-776956-3
• Data Processing in UNIX
  R. S. Tare
  McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-062885-8
  
• Data Warehousing with Informix: Best Practices Angela Sanchez, editor
  Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-079622-0
  Synopsis.
• Evolution of the High Performance Database
  Informix Software, et. al.
  Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-13-594730-8
• Informix Basics
  Glenn Miller
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1998, ISBN 0-13-080799-0, 672pp
  Synopsis.
• INFORMIX: Client/Server Application Development
  Paul R. Allen, Joseph J. Bambara, Richard J. Bambara
  McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-913056-9, 576pp
• Informix Database Administrator's Survival Guide
  Joe Lumbley
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1994, ISBN 0-13-124314-4, 320pp
  Synopsis.
• Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option: Best Practices
  Angela Sanchez, editor.
  Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-911074-7
  Synopsis.
• INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Handbook
  Carlton Doe
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1997, ISBN 0-13-605296-7, 496pp The author's own page.
• INFORMIX Performance Tuning - Second Edition
  Elizabeth Suto
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1997, ISBN 0-13-239237-2 400pp
  Synopsis.
• Informix: Power Reference
  Art Taylor
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1998, ISBN 0-13-080906-3, 512pp
  Synopsis.
• Informix-SQL, A Tutorial and Reference
  Tony Lacy-Thompson
  Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-465121-9, UKP 19.95, US$ 28.80
  Companion file: isql-tutorial.gz
• Informix Stored Procedure Programming
  Michael L. Gonzales
  Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-206723-4, 176pp
  Synopsis.
• Informix Unleashed
  John McNally et al
  Sams Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-672-30650-6, 1140pp
  
• Optimizing Informix Applications
  Robert D. Schneider
  Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-149238-1, 176pp
  Synopsis.
• Programming INFORMIX SQL/4GL: A Step-by-Step Approach, Second Edition
  Cathy Kipp
  Prentice Hall/Informix Press, 1998, IBSM 0-13-675919-X, 512pp
  Synopsis
• Using Informix-SQL - Second Edition
  Jonathan Leffler
  Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-56509-9, +1 800 447 2226
• WingZ Navigator
  Informix Software, Inc., Part # 9833B
  
• Informix Press
  General Listing of titles offered byInformix Press

• A Guide to the SQL Standard, Third Edition
  C.J. Date
  Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-50209-7
  
• A Visual Introduction to SQL
  J. Harvey Trimble, Jr.
  David Chappell, ISBN 0-471-61684-21
  
• Concurrency Control & Recovery in Database Systems
  P. A. Bernstein, V. Hadzilacos & N. Goodman
  Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10715-5
  
• Database, A Primer
  C. J. Date
  Addison-Wesley
• Fundamentals of Data Normalization
  Alan F. Dutka & Howard H. Hanson
  Addison-Wesley
• Handbook of Relational Database Design
  Candace C. Fleming & Barbara von Halle
  Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0-201-11434-8, 605pp
  
• Introduction to Database Systems, Volume I
  C. J. Date
  Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-14201-5
  
• Introduction to Database Systems, Volume II
  C. J. Date
  Addison-Wesley
• Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave
  Michael Stonebraker, with Dorothy Moore
  Moran Kaufmann Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-55860-397-2, 216pp
  Synopsis.
• Object-Relational DBMSs, Second Edition
  Michael Stonebraker and Paul Brown, with Dorothy Moore
  Moran Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-452-9, 320pp
  Synopsis.
• Relational Database: Selected Writings
  C. J. Date
  Addison-Wesley
• Relational Database Writings 1985-1989
  C. J. Date
  Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-50881-8
  
• SQL - The Standard Handbook
  Stephen Cannan & Gerard Otten
  McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-707664-8
  
• Using SQL
  James R. Groff & Paul N. Weinberg
  Osborne McGraw-Hill