IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
I have read this book and found it to be extreamly insightful. Mr. Vaughn has provided the consumate manual for working with Visual Basic and SQL. Having worked in the industry for 16 years, I've read many books and have found this one to be one of the best yet.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Writing Stored Procedures with Microsoft SQL Server: The Authoritative Solution
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Shepker
Rating: 3/5
Title: Writing Stored Procedures with Microsoft SQL Server: The Authoritative Solution
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Shepker
Rating: 3/5
One of those *cut and paste* books. For those who do not know where SQL Server Books Online are.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
This book is the perfect way to get up to speed with the feature set and architecture of Reporting Services. It's an easy read, and the quality of the book itself is way more than I expected for the price. It's not an intimidating book due to it's size and layout, so others on your team may also want to read it. In fact, my boss and a co-worker of mine were caught flipping through the copy that was on my desk before I was done with it :)Keep in mind that you'll rely on the online documentation and possibly another more in-depth book for advanced details, but the Rational Guide is a great way to start your evaluation of Reporting Services. Well worth the money!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 1/5
Too many errors, typos, and inconsistansies. Definitely not a "Teach Yourself" type of book. The sample database design is not good for most of the examples -- the tables do not illustrate the concepts very well.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Gayle Coffman
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Gayle Coffman
Rating: 5/5
It is very good book for beginners and advanced users. But you should have included some more examples Santhi Kiran from hyderabad
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Robin Dewson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Robin Dewson
Rating: 5/5
Coming from Access I needed to move to SQL Server and this is the second book I bought on the subject. By far this is the better of the 2. Brilliant style of writing and I got up to speed very quickly. I also bought the Pro SQL Server book, which is not for beginners but there are areas now two months on within that book that it too is now becoming useful. Buying the 2 books together is the right move. However for beginners this is the book to get rather than the Professional.
Well done Wrox and well done to the author for a useful compendium.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Daniel Appelquist
Rating: 3/5
Title: XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Daniel Appelquist
Rating: 3/5
I have mixed feelings about this book.On the one hand, it is easy to read, with a strong sense of humour throughout and a crisp layout.Yet, on the other, it falls short, I believe, of its presumed goal of being a practical and invaluable reference for Web developers wanting to enhance sites with back-end databases.The book kicks off with a detailed overview and explanation of XML, moving on through discussions of project management, data modelling, XML design, XML stylesheets, and developing database schemas. These chapters are easily accessible, largely due to the author's humour.Yet, two concluding chapters are where, I feel, the book falls down - integrating XML with SQL Server 2000, and integrating XML with Java.The depth of these chapters is visibly lacking, especially when contrasted to the earlier coverage of just what XML is. Indeed, these chapters weigh in at 29 and 19 pages respectively - rather puny when one considers that the title of the book is "XML and SQL".I wouldn't want to make any unfair assumptions, but it seems to me the author is far more of an "XML guy" than, say, a "database guy" or a "programming guy". Indeed, the back cover credits say he is active on the Advisory Committee of the W3C, and it is clear from the text that he is knowledgeable about XML down to the fine detail of its mandated implementation.However, there is nothing to give confidence that he is equally a master of SQL and the book is definitely unbalanced in its coverage.Ultimately, I believe "XML and SQL" holds value as a good-humoured guide to XML and its implementation. It would even serve well as an academic textbook, if supplemented with practical exercises.Unfortunately, though, I do not believe it serves professional programmers well.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 3/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 3/5
I was disappointed in this book. I bought it mainly because of the positive reviews on amazon(.com), but I spent some time with it and I didn't really find much that was useful that I didn't already know. However, I had already spent a lot of time exploring Google in the past, and spent the last five years administering systems, including web servers."Hacks" in the title is a misnomer. There's a section of cool hacks outside the Google API, but most of the book is simply a manual to Google. I don't see using built in features as "hacking" (which is a positive term, "cracking" is the term for what pop culture calls hacking).The book is definitely readable from beginning to end, but would be most useful as a reference for a specific task than a general guide.All the information in the book is correct, and it's fairly entertaining reading for a book about a search engine. There is a ton of useful information for most average computer users - things that can help you find what you're looking for, faster, easier, less hassle, more fun. Google is indeed much more than "just" a search engine. This would be excellent for people who use the web a lot for anything, but especially researchers.My problem is that it seems to be marketed toward the computer professional, someone with at least a little programming experience. Smart move, how many others are going to buy a book about a search engine? The reviews I read raved at how useful it was to them, as programmers. However, I found most of the book to be either stuff I already knew, stuff that you could easily find in online help, or things that aren't very useful.I still did get a few things out of it. I didn't know about the phone book lookups, newsgroup archives, and there is some good stuff for webmasters at the end. A lot of the scripts and script ideas are somewhat interesting, but do not seem generally useful.Of course, I didn't know all the syntax and a bunch of other details, but this stuff is available easily by clicking the help button. The first few chapters are generally and widely useful. The games are interesting, I guess. For a lot of the stuff in the middle and the end, some programming experience is very useful. People who have this experience don't need the beginning. But the people who need the beginning probably can't do much with the rest, though it is still readable and interesting.Overall, if you are interested enough to be reading reviews about it, I would probably recommend buying it, but not for tech-types who already know Google pretty well. Still, I can't really imagine someone for whom large parts of this book would be either not useful or not relevant. For occasional search engine users it would be extremely helpful, but how many from this group are going to sit down with a book about a search engine?O'Reilly, the publisher, produces excellent books on all kinds of tech topics, and this is the first I've been disappointed with. Several of their books are considered the definitive resource on their topics, and served as my guides to learning Unix and different programming languages. I would not have bought this book if it wasn't from them.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
This book covers the sql standard only. It does not cover anything which is db specific. I feel it is a good bood if you want quick access to statement syntax without having to leaf through a 3000 page book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache 2.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright, Poornachandra, Dr. Sarang, Afrasiab Ahmad, Sean Chittneden, Vivek Chopra, Micheal Link, Stephen G. Wadlow, Mathew Antony
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache 2.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright, Poornachandra, Dr. Sarang, Afrasiab Ahmad, Sean Chittneden, Vivek Chopra, Micheal Link, Stephen G. Wadlow, Mathew Antony
Rating: 5/5
This book is the only book that describes how to use mod_ruby, as far as I know.You can know many things abount mod_ruby from this book. For example:* What is mod_ruby
* How to configure Apache to use mod_ruby
* Output buffering mechanism of mod_ruby
* Apache API for RubyThe author of this section is Sean Chittenden. He is the most powerful contributor to mod_ruby, and his document is very reliable.I hope you enjoy this book and mod_ruby:-)
