Finally, there is a Pocket Developer's Guide for native AS/400 and IBM i database development. Yes, it is in big pocket guide form and it is tutorial in nature. You'll be pleased with all the valuable examples. You won't want to put down this comprehensive guide to DB2/400 when you get your hands on it. As you may know, there typically is no DB Administrator position in AS/400 shops. The database job is up to you - the AS/400 and IBM i Application Developer. Though rich in content, IBM's reference manuals are not built to teach you. They are for reference. This pocket guide is different. It is your teaching/learning vehicle to the native database. It is your new tool to help you solve programming problems more efficiently with database coding - rather than have to work harder building program code.
Author Biography
Brian W. Kelly is a retired Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and midrange systems technical advisor to the IT faculty. Kelly developed and taught many college and professional courses in the IT and business areas. He is also a contributing technical editor to IT Jungle's "The Four Hundred" and "Four Hundred Guru" Newsletters. A former IBM Senior Systems Engineer, he has an active consultancy in the information technology field, (www.kellyconsulting.com). He is the author of 87 books and numerous articles (hundreds) about current IT topics. Kelly is a frequent speaker at COMMON, IBM conferences, and other technical conferences and user group meetings across the United States. His favorite COMMON speaker was his buddy, the late Al Barsa Jr., one of the best ever. Though much of this book was conceived and some of it was published before today, publishing standards groups acknowledge this as Brian Kelly's 87th book. Thank you for the great support of Kelly's technical books from John Wiley, Cardinal Business Media, IT Jungle, MC Press, 29th Street Press as well as the many seminars Mr. Kelly taught over the years.
