Foreword to the Second Edition
It's really interesting the way a book comes together. I started this project as a completely new book, to be called The INFORMIX Debugger's Survival Guide. After about six months of work, I had only about 150 pages completed and was at a total loss for more material. I could have thrown in a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo, code listings, and the like, but it would have just been filler and would have been incredibly boring to write and probably even more boring to read. That's when I decided to incorporate the debugging manuscript into the second edition of the DBA Survival Guide.
The first edition was written for Version 5. At the time I didn't feel comfortable enough with Version 7 to write about it, and it took ...
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