Overview
Unleash all the power of IDS.2000 object-relational databases!
Object-relational databases built with Informix Dynamic Server.2000-the core database of Informix Internet Foundation.2000-offer powerful business advantages, including unprecedented flexibility, performance, simplicity, and speed-to-deployment. To leverage the full power of IDS.2000, you need to master Informix's ground-breaking DataBlade API. Now, for the first time, you can find all the information you need for expert Informix ORDBMS development in a single book!
Informix insider Jacques Roy shows how to identify the object-relational techniques that offer the biggest "bang for the buck." Using extensive real-world code examples, you'll learn how to use DataBlades to build databases that map precisely to your business requirements. Coverage includes:
- Key opportunities for competitive advantage through object-relational databases-with practical examples
- Step-by-step coverage of building user-defined routines that implement business rules
- SQL statements that take advantage of Informix object-relational extensions
- Opaque types, fastpath interface, Smart Blobs, multi-representation, and other performance enhancers
- Computational, iterator, and aggregate functions
- Tracing and debugging IDS.2000 database server applications
If you want to maximize the performance of your enterprise applications, it's time to go beyond "classical" RDBMS programming-and take full advantage of IDS.2000's revolutionary object-relational capabilities. This book delivers all the insight and code you'll need!
CD-ROM INCLUDED
he accompanying CD-ROMcontains the Informix DataBlade Developer's Kit, Informix Client Software Developer's Kit, plus all the sample code from the book.