IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 5/5
The SQL Server Pocket Admin Guide covers the major areas confronting a DBA: Admin, Data Administration, Performnace Monitoring, Backup and Recovery and the like. More importantly it gives clear examples of syntax for things from ISQL and OSQL to creating jobs to run DTS packages.The one thing it needs to include is an FYI or "gotchas" section. The pocket administrator is not so good at indicating what it is leaving out. For example: Restoring backups to other dbs with different owners but identical schemas is non-trivial.DTS packages running stored procedures do not allow for error trapping. This mean if the SP raises an error, the DTS package will not notice and continue as if the SP ran successfully.While you can not expect a pocket administrator to cover these details. It should briefly indicate that these are issues to be considered, but beyond the scope of the reference.Other than this oversight, it is an excellent reference.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 3/5
I got this book because I wanted to learn PHP and MySQL. Although the book does an OK job helping you set up your AMP, you will need to visit the MySQL, PHP and Apache sites to complete your setup. The PHP info given is really quick, I assume the author thinks because he mentions something that I am suppose to completely understand. This book is not for beginners at all. It seemed to have some good info and nice code to help you build a site as long as you did not plan on altering the code to much, because you better know what you are doing. I'm sure this book would be good for someone who has some programming experience not just HTML. You should look else where if you have no actual programming experience.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Reporting: Queries With SQL Objects
Publisher: Komenda Pub Co
Authors: Gary M. Lewis
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle Reporting: Queries With SQL Objects
Publisher: Komenda Pub Co
Authors: Gary M. Lewis
Rating: 4/5
I rate this an excellent book by Gary Lewis. Why, in the early days of learning Oracle and SQLplus everyone tells you to read the fantastic manual, try help commands and the like. What if you have to generate a report from an oracle database or a lot of reports from an oracle database. This book has examples, and they are useful examples. Today lots of tools are available to work with oracle including sqlplus, my copy is old and worned and dog eared from years of use and having been loaned to other oracle developers who needed a how to book. Glad I had it, especially when working with SCT Banner oracle based student and general modules. First of 3 books by Gary Lewis, have them all.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 2/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 2/5
This book merely skims the surface of DTS. Enough details of DTS are not supplied. For instance there are a number of annoyances with DTS that must be avoided using workaround that are mentioned nowhere in this book. Also more complicated subjects of DTS are merely skimmed through. This book is not good for beginner nor for professionals.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Shyam Pather
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Shyam Pather
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent resource that no serious SQL NS developer should be without. Written by the lead developer of the product, this book offers great detail into the in's and out's of creating SQL NS applications. For example in one chapter, you'll look inside the notification generator and learn how to optimize it for your application. Shyam also clearly explains other topics such as how to :
- create Custom Hosted Event Providers
- use the built in tools to monitor your application
- create a subscription management application
All 600+ pages are packed with great information.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
I've been tuning Oracle Applications instances for several customers, this book is the best in its class. It is easy to read, it follows a logical path. I always use it as my main reference book for SQL tuning. If you want to increase your knowledge in Oracle SQL tuning, this is the book. It provides good examples and explains concepts very well.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
I am now actively persuing getting a VB/SQL position. I wanted to teach myself SQL. I pick up languages relatively easy and have no time for crummy writing that complicates the learning process. This book, however, is structured very well. I am only about 1/3 through it but I find that the way it is written makes it easy to decide the level at which you are going to examine a particular topic. I skim the pages and cruise right through the stuff makes sense. If I am not getting it, I can easily look more closely at the page and find what I need to understand. I have looked at a number of computer books and never felt compelled to write a review before but I felt that I owed it to this author. Thanks bro.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 5/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 5/5
This book is a must on your bookshelf if you are a Google power user or a developer who in interested in making Google work for you and your customers. It tells the whole Google story, where it came from, how it became so popular and how to take advantage of the greatest search engine ever.
This is the book by which all other books about Google will be measured. Don't go searching without it!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Rating: 5/5
I'm still in the process of reading this book and I have to say that I enjoy it very much. I have learned alot already. And what is really great is it focuses on PHP and PostgreSQL as a perfect team. The book does not divert my attention to MySQL which many other books do to much. I feel the book was well thought out and progresses me smoothly forward. Thank god for this book. I don't know what I would do without it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server and ADO Programming Complete
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Sybex Inc.
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server and ADO Programming Complete
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Sybex Inc.
Rating: 5/5
I "never woulda thunk it" when I first saw this book (looks like something off of a bargain table), but this book has been massively useful for learning and understanding everything I've needed to know about effective database management from a "get things done now" perspective.Particularly, it has the clearest explanation of SQL queries (joins, unions, and all those other gizmos) I've ever run across.And it's been even more useful than that as a quick reference tool, way better than the highfalutin stuff I usually hear touted by "experts."
