We have converted our newsletters to Web documents; and they are available for on-line viewing here. This is the place to find the news about our past meetings, plans, links to other Informix related material and catch-up on back issues of our newsletter. The following is the index of articles from our newsletters that are currently available.

Volume 10, No. 2 – Fall 2000

• HOW TO: PDQ by J. Warren Donovan
• Tuning Informix DSS Queries by Jack Parker
• History of Informix and interview with co-founder Roger Sippl by Ron Flannery
• Interview with Jim Foy: Informix is back in the database business! by Ron Flannery

Volume 10, No. 1 – April 2000

• The Washington Area Informix User Group Mailing List by Lester Knutsen
• Forum 2000 by Nick Nobbe
• Forum 2000 Presentations On Our Web Site by Lester Knutsen
• Forum 2000 Pictures by Nancy Balsbaugh
• Interview with Jean-Yves Dexmier by Ron Flannery
• Informix Certification Study Group by Bob Carts
• Informix Race Car
• Informix White Papers and Tech Briefs by Walt Hultgren
• The onstat Quick Reference Guide by Troy L. Hewitt

Volume 9, No. 4 – October 1999

• Forum 2000 announcement
• WAIUG Meeting, September 15, 1999 by Peter Wages
• WAIUG Elections, by Lester Knutsen
• Informix Solutions Portal 99 – My Perspective by James Edmiston
• Using CLI to Connect to Informix Databases Through ODBC by James Edmiston

Volume 9, No. 3 – July 1999

• WAIUG Meeting Wednesday June 16,1999 by Peter Wages
• Mid-Atlantic PeopleSoft / Informix (PeopleMix) Special Interest Group (SIG) By Nadia Skiscim
• Jselect – A Java processor for SQL SELECT statements by Sujit Pal
• Checking Informix Ontape Backups with Archecker by Lester Knutsen
• Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your Servers by Ron Flannery

Volume 9, No. 2 – April 1999

• Informix World Wide User Conference
• WAIUG Training Day 1999, by Peter Wages and Nick Nobbe
• Exploring the OnLine Command Line Utilities (Part 3) by Lester Knutsen

Volume 9, No. 1 – January 1999

• Performance Tuning PeopleSoft’s nVision with Informix by Kevin Fennimore
• Cool and Helpful New Web Sites for Informix Users

Volume 8, No. 4 – October 1998

• Informix Data Warehouse Seminar
• The Unofficial Informix FAQ by June Tong

Volume 8, No. 3 – July 1998

• New Features of Informix Dynamic Server 7.3 by Kevin Fennimore
• Using CLI to Connect to Informix Databases through ODBC by James Edmiston
• Application Development Strategies by Ron Flannery
• Web/CGI Scripts to Monitor your Informix Server by Lester Knutsen
• Informix-Related Internet Resources by Walt Hultgren
• Informix Expands Tools Suite with INFORMIX DYNAMIC 4GL – Press Releases

Volume 8, No. 2 – April 1998

• Informix World Wide User Conference
• Forum 98, by Nick Nobbe
• Forum 98 Presentations on our Web Site
• Washington Area Informix User Group Email List
• Exploring the OnLine Command Line Utilities – ONCHECK, by Lester Knutsen
• Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition for Windows 95 & NT

Volume 8, No. 1 – January 1998

• The Washington Area Informix User Group Email List
• Forum 98 – A One Day Technical Conference for Informix Users
• PeopleSoft / Informix Special Interest Group
• Exploring the OnLine Command Line Utilities – ONSTAT, by Lester Knutsen
• Background Processing and Shell Scripting for Informix, by Ron M. Flannery

Volume 7, No. 4 – October 1997

• Washington Informix Users Group – Next Meeting – December 3, 1997
• Washington Informix / PeopleSoft SIG – Next Meeting – November 18
• Michigan Informix Users Group – Next Meeting
• “Ask the Experts” – Transcript from the 1997 Informix Worldwide User Conference IIUG Technical Track
• Book Discounts Available to Informix User Group Members
• ARCUNLOAD a utility to extract a table from a level-0 archive (tbtape/ontape)
• Membership and Sponsorship Information

Volume 7, No.3 – July 1997

• The Informix FAQ, by Kerry Sainsbury
• The XTREE command, by Kevin Fennimore
• Concurrency and Locking, by Ron Flannery
• Using SQL to generate SQL (DBA tricks and tips) by Lester Knutsen
• Informix-Related Internet Resources, by Walt Hultgren
• FREE GUI DBA Administration Tool – Informix Product Announcement
• WAIUG Newsletter Index and Web archive

Volume 7, No.2 – April 1997

• WAIUG Training Day, by Nick Nobbe
• WAIUG Survey Results, by Nick Nobbe
• International Informix User Group Announcements
• Informix World Wide User Conference
• Understanding and Using INFORMIX Stored Procedures, by Rafal Czerniawski
• INFORMIX-4GL Programming Test, by Stuart Litel
• A Web/CGI Interface to the ONSTAT Utility, by Lester Knutsen

Volume 7, No. 1 – January 1997

• Informix Installation and OnLine Configuration Procedures (Part III) – by Mike Tinius
• Informix OnLine Outperforms Microsoft on NT Operating System – Press Release

Volume 6, No. 4 – October 1996

• Exploring the SYSMASTER Database (Part II) – by Lester Knutsen
• Informix Installation and OnLine Configuration Procedures (Part II) – by Mike Tinius

Volume 6, No. 3 – July 1996

• Exploring the SYSMASTER Database (Part 1) – by Lester Knutsen
• Informix Event Alarms, by Kevin Fennimore and Ivy Ho
• Testing an Informix DBA, by Madhu Reddy
• Informix Installation and OnLine Configuration Procedures, by Mike Tinius
• WAIUG Web Pages and On-Line Newsletters, by Lester Knutsen
• WAIUG History

Volume 6, No. 2 – April 1996

• Informix 1996 Worldwide User Conference
• Washington Area Informix User Group Forum 96 by John Ashmead
• You Know My Methods, Dr. Watson by John Ashmead
• Testing an Informix Developer by Madhu Reddy
• Error Handling Functions in Informix Programs by Lester Knutsen

Volume 6, No. 1 – January 1996

• Informix Invites You To View The Future of Technology
• Announcing the International Informix Users Group, by Walt Hultgren
• The Quality of Your SQL, by Gavin Nour
• WAIUG Web Pages and On-Line Newsletters, by Lester Knutsen

Volume 5, No. 4 – October 1995

• The Informix Worldwide User Conference & Exhibition, by Malcolm Weallans
• Roles – A New Security Feature in 7.10.UD1, by Lester Knutsen
• Using the Internet to Access Informix-Based Resources, by Carlton Doe

Volume 5, No. 3 – July 1995

• Data Warehouse – by Jack Parker
• Schema Optimization – by Kevin Fennimore
• Informix Archive Sites – by Walt Hultgren
• Writing Reusable Informix-4GL Code – by Kerry Sainsbury

Volume 5, No. 2 – May 1995

• Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape, to Keynote Informix Worldwide User Conference
• Informix Online 5.X TB Utilities Quick Reference Guide by Lester Knutsen

Volume 5, No. 1 – January 1994

• Forum 94 – by Peter Wages
• Informix Announces Site on World Wide Web – Press Release
• Informix Query Optimization – by Kevin Fennimore

Volume 4, No. 4 – October 1994

• An Intoduction to Triggers – by Cathy Kipp

Volume 4, No. 3 – July 1994

• SQL Optimization – the Set Explain Command – by Kevin Fennimore
• Informix 4GL Programming Tips – by Lester Knutsen
• Avoiding Databases Crashes – by Joe Lumbley
• The Prepare Statement – by Kevin Fennimore
• An Introduction to Database Security – by Lester Knutsen

Volume 4, No. 2 – April 1994

• Informix and Microsoft Client/Server Package for Windows NT
• Informix Online Archive to Disk Script – by Clem Akins

Volume 4, No. 1 – January 1994

• INFORMIX-SE Database Administration Tips By Madhu Reddy
• Reading Informix SE audit files by Lester Knutsen
• Anonymous FTP Archive for Informix Files by Walt Hultgren
• Informix Public Domain Tools by Dave Snyder

Volume 3, No. 6 – December 1993

• Indexing Strategies, by Kevin Fennimore
• An Introduction to Using SQL in Shell Scripts, by Lester Knutsen
• Informix Online Database Administration Tips, by Madhu Reddy

Volume 3, No. 5 – September 1993

Volume 3, No. 4 – July 1993

• Informix E-Mail Discussion List Going Strong – by Walt Hultgren
• Informix 4GL Application Error Logging – by Lester Knutsen
• Searching Through Informix 4GL Display Arrays – by Sameer Gupta
• Financial Functions in Informix 4GL – by David Heller
• Getting Column Names Within VI – by Lester Knutsen

Volume 3, No. 3 – May 1993

• ANSI Terminal emulation and Informix 4GL by Lester Knutsen

Volume 3, No. 2 – March 1993

• Timing out Informix Processes – by Sameer Gupta
• Getting Column Names Within vi – by Lester Knutsen

Volume 3, No. 1 – January 1993

• Infinite Array Display in Informix 4GL by Sameer Gupta