Informix Stored Procedure Programming (Bk/Disk)

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Summary: Not worth the $44.00.
Review: The chapters of this book are somewhat informative if you are new to Informix. HOWEVER the price of this book should be more like $15.00 since it only contains about 150 pages.

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Summary: Introductory text - too short
Review: The latter half of the book is a copy ofthe SPL syntax from the Informix documentation.If you don't have access to a copy of the Syntax Documentation Volume 2 from Informix, this can be very useful data. However this only leaves about 90 pages of text to the book, probably not worth the $41 price. Overall I found the book to be fairly basic. There were no outright errors that I noted in the book, but it did not have the depth of discussion I was expecting. This is especially true if you compare it with books in similiar subject matter like O'Reilly's "Oracle PL/SQL Programming."

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Summary: Outline only, shallow depth, no detail.
Review: This book shows how to make, load, save and run the simplest of stored procedures. It does not give good reference to the Stored Procedure Language, program control statements, cursors in stored procedures, and statements that will not work in stored procedures that do work in ISQL/4GL. The book is also lacking in real-world examples.