IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
It is not often I give 5 stars (except when I eat Chinese food). I learned more about SQL Server from this single book than any other source. Concise and clear explainations. Detail where it needs to be. I used this in developing my first SQL Server 6.5 app. I am so confident now I can talk intelligently with DBA's and systems people. From VB to admin to BCP to T-SQL. If I had a reference like this for other products I would have very few books. Great!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 4/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 4/5
Programming PHP is a great introduction to PHP. The chapters are well written with good examples that explain what is being discussed. The chapters are not written in a "read one after the other" fashion, so you can easily go to the chapter you need information on and find what you are looking for. This book did have some errors in the sample code, but if you read the text and actually try out the examples you can easily figure out what needs to be fixed to get them running. Since the O'Reilly "Programming" series is more about advanced programming issues, I think this book should have had the title "Learning PHP". It just seems to be an introduction, because it did not delve into any advanced topics. It is worthy to have on any PHP developers bookshelf. Recommended for beginners.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
If you work with SQL 7.0 then you NEED this book
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 1/5
This book is way to generic. Not great at all for someone who's starting to learn php, and isn't clear on the syntax or semantics of php. For example the code it gives to connect to oracle 8 and run a query is literally two pages long. Most of it is redundant and unclear. Further, commands like include_once("DB/standard.php" ); does not parse on Windows NT machines running php. (A lot of syntax errors in book.) So, if your fairly new to PHP, and/or running anything either than a unix/linux/solaris box this book isn't for you.Oo the solution for the problem about include_once("DB/standard.php" ); is to give the absolute path: include_once("c:/php/pear/db/common .php");
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
As a software developer with many years of hands-on experience, I continually need to upgrade my skills as efficently as possible. What I value most in a book is how clearly it explains the concept and practice of a particular subject, thus allowing me to quickly get my hands on it to discover its nuances and idiosyncrasies.I found this book to be very logically organized, thorough in its coverage of most subjects without going into nauseating detail and, most importantly, clearly written. I have written numerous stored procedures in SQL Server 6.5 and Sybase 10.0, yet managed to learn interesting facts about TSQL.Based on reading this book, I am progressing nicely in my initial work with SQL Server 2000. The explanation of user functions was clear and concise, yet detailed enough for me to understand why they are useful and how they are created. The book provided enough detail about most of the SQL Server 2000 TSQL capabilities to begin working with them.I feel that the authors strike a nice balance between thoroughness and detail. It read easily and quickly from cover to cover, without ever becoming bogged down in myriad details that won't be useful unless the reader is addressing a specific problem in the real world.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 1/5
Straight out of Microsoft's manuals, this book was obviously just a ploy for the authors to say "Look at me, I am published." Wrox let us down with this one. Horrible index's proved to be as fun as a proctology exam.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
I'm amazed how well done this book is. Takes the reader from the very beginning and, step by step, brings them to the point of writing some pretty sophisticated PL/SQL functions and procedures. I saw an earlier review here complaining that the book is for the uninitiated. Well, duh...that's why "101" is in the title. And the book's scripts are available - the author gives his email address in the introduction and says to write if the reader wants the scripts.All in all, a really well done book. I hope to see more like it.
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
This is the best DBA resource I've found in a long time. Everything SQL Server can do can be done via Transact-SQL, so you can't call yourself an expert SQL Server DBA unless you're a Transact-SQL expert. This book helps you get there. I learned trick after trick from it that I'd never seen before. In particular, the Administrative T-SQL and Undocumented T-SQL chapters have been quite useful to me. If you want to become an expert T-SQL DBA or just sharpen your T-SQL skills, be sure to read this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server Security
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: David Litchfield
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server Security
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: David Litchfield
Rating: 5/5
SQL Server Security by David Lichtfield clearly addresses SQL Server vulnerabilities and provides security solutions, as well as covering installation, administration, and programming, plus security issues such as authentication, encryption, intrusion detection, and more. Written for IT professionals administering or programming any SQL Server-based application, SQL Server Security includes coverage of SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server (Yukon).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 4/5
Last week I passed the dreaded implementation exam on my first try. Needless to say, I have over 5 years SQL server experience. This experience helped me answer the more practical scenario based questions (there are lots of them). What the book does not teach is database design fundementals, normalization, and things that really come from experience. That is fair enough. A person with no experience should not expect to pass the exam. Read up and study relational database design. Set up databases, normalize them, understand all the whys of everything. This is not a syntax exam. Use the book to understand query tuning, all the details of DBCC and Set Showplan commands, and indexing. The author presented the material in a very structured way. The explanations are clear and the labs are helpful. If you understand relational design in general, then this book will definitely help you pass the exam.If you are a developer and would like to study the best SQL Server book in the market, get a copy of Inside SQL Server 7.0 from Microsoft Press. This is the best book on SQL Server 7.0 ins and outs. Period...
