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Lumbley, Joe
Informix DBA survival guide.—2nd ed./Joe Lumbley
p. cm. --(Prentice Hall PTR Informix series) Includes index.
ISBN 0-13-079623-9
1. Relational database. 2. Informix-SQL. I. Title.
II. Series.
QA76.9.D3L859 1999 98-44764
005.75'65--dc21 CIP
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