IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
This book was a great study aid while preparing for the 70-028 test. Does it give you the answers for the test, no. Does it review key subject area necessary for passing the test, yes. Too many paper MCSEs (or wannabes) expect to get the answers to the test before taking the test. The purpose of these exams is to test your knowledge of the product and not how well you memorized the questions from practice exams. Using a book like this, BOL, and the product, you should be able to pass the exam. And for you people who expect to get the answers to the test before you take the test, there are at least two questions that I saw from this book on the test.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 2/5
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 2/5
I bought this book hoping to learn PHP and MySQL from scratch....that didn't happen.This is not a tutorial, unless you want to set up a web based e-mail client that is.I do use this book as a syntax reference quite often but I could have printed that out from the web.Save your money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
This book was all I could have asked for. I have been wanting to learn about XML in SQL Server for a long time. I read the Books Online, but just couldn't really get it. I mean I could write the code and I could play with OPENXML, but I didn't really *understand* what I was doing. This book changed all that. Now it all makes sense. Unlike a lot of other books, it doesn't repeat the online docs. It starts where the Books Online ends. And the sample code is really useful. The book says there are over 700 example files and I don't doubt it! The sheer number and the quality of the samples makes the book worth the price all by itself.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing Training Kit: McSe Training for Exam 70-019 (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing Training Kit: McSe Training for Exam 70-019 (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 5/5
This book was a great book. I have had 3 years of experience in data-warehousing, but after reading this book I was able to learn lot of new things. The exam is a tough one. I would recommend reading the entire book and then going through the transcender. By the way I passed the test.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
This book ranks amongst the best on the subject. I spent nearly three months reading every page and duplicating examples on the CD. The book is remarkable in the way it manages to avoid coding errors which plague many computer books. Actually, there is only a very small number of typographical errors.The book is easy to understand, even though at times one gets the impression the description is concise. It is to be appreciated how the authors covered the subject in about 800 pages. The PHP and the MySQL manuals each exceed 1000 pages. At times I found it helpful to read an independent description on the the subject, even though the manuals often lack the clarity of the authors' book.The command mode approach is covered in the beginning of the book, while most of us have abandoned it, and it was a minor effort with some of the examples. However, the examples work, unlike some reviewers suggested. One has to be careful about case sensitivity of variables, which may be problematic with Linux servers.Chapter 24 was a challenge to follow, considering the large number of functions employed by the example. However, patience prevailed, and was able to get it working after appropriate changes in parameters, such as user, password, and database names. Having the right to use only one database does not help my case.What can be confusing to a student is having different entities with the same name, such as database name, table name, and column name all being called user. While this book avoided such an issue, my specific selection of variable names presented a problem. Overall, I find it difficult to generate comments detracting from the excellent rating of this book.It was a great benefit to have a pdf version of the book on my hard disk. I could locate specific subject matters a lot quicker than I could by turning pages.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 4/5
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 4/5
The authors jump in with an example configuration, but never explain how each element of the configuration relates to the rest. For example- do alias statements take precedence over <directory> blocks ? Does it matter what order an alias or scriptalias directive appears in your file ? We are never told. In addition, there is a lack of continuity between one experiment in configuration and the next. As other reviewers have pointed out, it's unclear who the intended audience is. I'm sure at some point I'll get some value from the API documentation, but as a newbie to Apache, I've learned considerably more through trial and error on my own than by reading this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 5/5
I have read this book about SQL2000 and VB.NET. (Spanish Version)
I don't have words to say the wonderful that it's this book.
It' s the best programming book that I have never read.
Thank you to write it.
I wait a new version soon.
Best regards from Canary Island, Spain.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
This book turned me onto the Wrox press style of computing references.The book manages to teach the inside and out of php while not boring the user to death. Numerous usefull examples, and a layout compliant with both cover-2-cover reading, and quick lookups for the information you need. This book covers the beginings (installing php on your webserver), the middle (writing php documents), and the end (php with a database back end) for the average user. Those looking to do full scale application development would be well advised to start here, then to move onto a more advanced book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
This book is great for those with some experience in programming in C/C++ and little or no experience with server-side scripting languages. After struggling for a while learing PHP using the on-line manual, this book enabled me to get up to speed writing useful PHP scripts for some DB-backed websites. I chose to use PostgreSQL rather than MySQL and I found their examples were fairly easy to adapt. The only gaffe I have with the book is that some of the examples have some bugs, but if you pay attention to the first seven chapters and use the On-line Manual as a reference, the bugs are fairly easy to spot and fix. I highly recommend this book for anyone needing to get a website up and running fast!
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
I've been telling people what a fine book this is for six months. I used to say "This is the best Transact Sql book." But, after reading most of the other top-drawer Sql Server books, I've changed my tune. This is THE best Sql Server 2000 book in print. It is better than Inside Sql Server (by a long ways) and better than the other books people typically refer me to.What's so great about it? For one thing, it's a book, not a long whitepaper or a printed version of the Books Online. The author has an easy-going, relaxed style that is refreshing in these days of authors who may know their stuff technically, but don't write well. Not only does an author need to know the technical info, he needs to be able to explain it in print if he wants to be successful. This author does that and he does it better than any other technical author I've ever read. Not a lot a fluff, just one great technical exposition after another.Another reason this is the best Sql Server 2000 book is how thorough it is. It doesn't miss a trick. All the stuff you'd expect to be there in a book like this is there and more. Stored procedures? Triggers? Views? Query performance tuning? It's all there.Like I said, this is the best Sql Server 2000 book in print. I wish all my clients would buy, read, and study it. We'd all be better off.
