IBM 000-8697 Manual Do Utilizador

Introduction

If you have had no prior experience with database management, you may
want to refer to an introductory text like C. J. Date’s An Introduction to
Database Systems: Seventh Edition (Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1999). If you
want more technical information on database management, consider
consulting the following tests:

■

Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and
Management, 3rd Edition, by C. Begg and T. Connolly (Addison-
Wesley Publishing, 2001)

■

Inside Relational Databases, 2nd Edition, by M. Whitehorn and B.
Marklyn (Springer-Verlag, 2001)

This guide assumes you are familiar with your computer operating system.
If you have limited

UNIX

 system experience, you may want to look at your

operating system manual or a good introductory text before starting to learn
about

IBM I

nformix

O

n

L

ine.

Some suggested texts about

UNIX

 systems follow:

■

A Practical Guide to the UNIX System, 3rd Edition by M. Sobell
(Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994)

■

Learning the UNIX Operating System by J. Peek (O’Reilly & Associates,
1997)

■

Design of the UNIX Operating System by M. Bach (Prentice-Hall, 1987)

The American National Standards Institute (

ANSI

) has established a set of

industry standards for

SQL

.

IBM I

nformix

SQL

-based products are fully

compliant with

SQL-92

Entry Level (published as

ANSI

X3.135-1992), which is

identical to

ISO

 9075:1992. In addition, many features of Informix database

servers comply with the

SQL

-

92

 Intermediate and Full Level and X/Open

SQL CAE

 (common applications environment) standards.