Hello everyone, I've been buries in development activities for the last many months. That explains why I've neglected my blog lately. I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it's not a train...

One thing that will make me come out of my cave is the IIUG Informix conference.That's a great event that takes place this year in Overland Park, KS between May 15 and May 18. As usual, this is the perfect opportunity to network with other Informix enthusiasts and the Informix lab people. The architects will be there in force, make sure to let them know what you like and what you want. Also, we should not forget the great sessions you can attend. A lot of effort has been put into this. I'm sure everyone will enjoy the conference.

While you wait for the conference to learn more abot Informix, you could also read some of the technical articles published recently such as:

• Take advantage of fragment-level statistics and smarter statistics in IBM Informix: Use the new IBM Informix features to run the update statistics command more efficiently, intelligently, and quickly without putting excess drain on your resources.
• Tune your Informix database for top performance, Part 1: Tuning the data model and the application :Use the "Fastest DBA benchmark" case study to learn basic principles of tuning your database application, tuning your data model, and using updated statistics to get optimum performance.

There is more so stay tuned.