IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
The author writes in a very refined style, making it easy for anyone to grasp the concepts. Even though the book is intended for people with prior programming experience, the author makes it easy for novice and student programmers to follow. I read it even on a plane and it was just like cruising through a novel.I highly recommend this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
The SQL Server Books On Line should be the first place you turn for guidance; this book will become your second during the early days of using SQL Server. There's good coverage of the particularities of using SQL Server if you are coming from another dbms product, so this is good to have around for transitioning to SQL Server - it's not a beginner's book and assumes you are already familar with databases and sql. If you want to know more in-depth information about SQL Server then look at Inside SQL Server.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
I've bought a couple of PHP and other programming books that were good and when I ordered the PHP Black Book, I never thought that this would become my desk reference and partner on work. Why? Because it has a simple, interesting, fun reading and because it is so well written and organized that you wont get lost on chapters and subjects.
For me, it is not one more book, this has become The Book and if you're considering PHP programming, you've got it all here with fun and professionalism.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 5/5
The best book I have found to explain SQL to someone with no experience.It is very easy to grasp SQL using this book. Plus the format allows one to invest a little bit of time each day and make recognizable progress. In addition, if you don't have access to database software, you can still do the exercises and check your results.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 4/5
It a great book for OLAP. According to Microsoft Analysis Services, it should include Data Mining. It would be perfect and I would give five stars if it includes the content of data mining.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 2/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 2/5
There is something for everyone here. If you are a beginner, you owe it to yourself to read through this book until you get it. The opening chapter is as good an intro to the TSQL language as I've found. If you're an amateur, you'll want to read through this to get on the road to becoming an expert. There's enough code here to earn your Phd in TSQL programming. And if you're an expert, you'll want to research and study this book and the insights it shares. You will not find better TSQL coding techniques and explanations anywhere. This book will take you to the next level into the realm of the gurus.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Utilities: Using Hidden Programs, Import/Export, SQL*Loader, Oradebug, Dbverify, Tkprof and More
Publisher: Rampant TechPress
Authors: Dave Moore
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Utilities: Using Hidden Programs, Import/Export, SQL*Loader, Oradebug, Dbverify, Tkprof and More
Publisher: Rampant TechPress
Authors: Dave Moore
Rating: 5/5
After reading "Oracle Utilities" by Mr. Moore and Burleson, I have advocated the book as a must for our project teams leveraging Oracle DBs. The book provides insights and tips that would take someone years of experience to acquire. It serves as an excellent reference and its organization makes it easy to locate the information you need. Once you find what you are looking for, the book carefully walks you through the implementation of the techniques found in the book. Our developers and software quality assurance folks have incorporated many of the techniques found in the book into our ISO-9001:2000 and SEI/CMM Level 3 automated testing and QA procedures.The book has become one of the most utilized Oracle textbooks at the company, to the point where we have "can not leave the building" copies and traveling copies for our road warriors. The book is highly recommended.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 2/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 2/5
I wouldn't recommend this book. The Visual Quickstart series is usually great but this book is a dog. The author should have used more concise examples to illustrate the coding principles-- it took forever to type in the code for very little return. Also his website has been pulled down, so there aren't in depth answers for coding questions. Bottom line, this book is fluff and you can do better.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
As many others have pointed out, this book lacks any real SQL 7.0 coverage. Consequently, many of the examples are obsolete (using bcp.exe instead of BULK INSERT to load ASCII data, for example) and some don't even work anymore. But the real problem with this book is that it's not written very well. A few others have mentioned this and I'd like to elaborate a bit on it. Good technical books do not have to be dry as a bone. They don't have to be completely lacking in spirit. They can be interesting, even funny, while at the same time giving you the info you crave and which caused you to buy the book. This book, however, is insipidly dull. There's no wit here. There's no personality. This book is the Al Gore of the T-SQL books market. Contrast this with Ken Henderson's book, The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL. Henderson's book is deep, thorough, modern (covers SQL 7 and the latest enhancements to Transact-SQL), witty, and engaging. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Transact-SQL Programming pales in comparison to Henderson's book, and I can't imagine how anyone who'd read both couldn't agree.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
What I like the most about this book is the indepth explanations. No one explains complex technical topics better than Ken Henderson. No one. The attention to detail and the exhausting subject material coverage are everywhere in every book I've read of his. This one carries on that tradition. In fact, Ken really out does himself in this one - it's his best work yet. You might think with 600 code samples that this book would just be a code library, but you'd be wrong. The book is loaded with good code, to be sure, but it's also laden with great explanations and thorough topic exploration. I absolutely love the book and wish more were like it.
