IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
This book really surprised me, it's great. The author it really helped me to understand the various microsoft database aproaches and how to gain benefit or avoid the pitfalls of each.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 5/5
The negative reviews of this book, authored by the remaining 15 people who have no other duties than DBA, are misleading. The book is appropriately titled and is for an administrator.This is the best book for the DBA that has been tasked with administering a DB management system in addition to thier normal IS administration or programming duties.If you are a DB implementor, this book is not for you. If you read this book, you will be provided with a clear understanding of SQL Server 7.0 and be able to administrate it appropriately.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 5/5
I had been trying to extract information from our workplace databases for several years, and it was a frustrating experience. This book put it all together for me, and I finally understand the complexities. I had tried to learn from many other books, but their focus was on point and click, creating databases, maintaining databases, and creating forms. SQL Queries for Mere Mortals focuses exclusively on what I need to accomplish -- extracting information from existing databases. I use it as a reference often. Now, I can obtain answers to complex questions with a single SQL statement, instead of numerous queries of queries of queries.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE SQL 2000 Administration Exam Cram (Exam: 70-228)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Kalani Kirk Hausman
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCSE SQL 2000 Administration Exam Cram (Exam: 70-228)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Kalani Kirk Hausman
Rating: 2/5
This book gives you alot of facts to remember and no examples to use. The test was all configuration and security scenario questions and alot of stuff in the book was hardly covered like backup and recovery, DTS, BCP, DBCC statements, replication, maybe one question each on these. No questions at all on steps to take during installation and configuration. I will be looking for something to supplement this with..
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sybase SQL Server 11 Dba Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David S. Solomon, Brian Tretter, Ray Rankins
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sybase SQL Server 11 Dba Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David S. Solomon, Brian Tretter, Ray Rankins
Rating: 5/5
Sybase Sql Server 11 Dba Survival Guide is now the one book I take with me instead of the 4 or 5 books I have carried before. All of the essentials are here. I also like the tips and tricks that the author has put in. Much of this info can be found in the product manuals but is very hard to extract. This book has it right where I need it -- all in one place.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Whatever caused these guys to think they had an advanced book here? This is strictly a beginner's book, and a poor one at that. As some of the other reviews have pointed out, the prose is fairly horrible and definitely indicates a problem with English as a language. More importantly, though, is the fact that there's little here that isn't also in the BOL (Books Online) that come with SQL Server. I was also put off by how weak the SQL 2000 coverage is. There are a good number of new features/functions/etc. in SQL 2000's Transact-SQL that aren't in this book. If you're going to regurgitate the vendor's online docs, the least you could do is do a complete job of it!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
The entire book is fantastic, but the specific chapters that have helped me in daily work with SQL Server are:
Chapter 5: starting at "Understanding Indexes", p 149 thru the end of the chapter.
also, chapter 28, "A Balanced Index Strategy" (p768-777)
Chapter 7: the WHOLE chapter!
Chapter 11: "Transactional Integrity" (p337-349)
Chapter 18: the WHOLE chapter
Chapter 26: "Recovery Models" (p688-693)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Finally a book that doesn't insult your intelligence as an administrator. I agree with the other reviewer, this book assumes you know all the basics and jumps right into specific problems. It shows you how to fix the problems with some pretty cool methods. I found I learned something in each chapter and I consider myself a pretty good admin. The most useful part of the book is that the author surfed the newsgroups and discussed common questions there. One catch...don't buy this book to learn the basics or you may be disappointed. It's a great book to have after you already know the basics.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Chris Fehily
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Chris Fehily
Rating: 5/5
Excellent book for learning SQL. This little books seems to pack a big punch in everything there is to know about SQL. There are around 200 to 300 sample queries, that start from the basics to nice fancy ones. You will learn about subsetting, fucntions, grouping, joins, subqueries, set operations, indexes, views, data definition language, and much more. For every topic you will get instructions on how its done in about the five most common SQL implementations.
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
I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to get into using PHP and MySQL.
After reading the first five chapters I already felt I had gotten my money's worth. Not only did I learn the things I needed to know about PHP and MySQL quickly and easily, but I learned more.
In college I took a class in Java Programming for the Iternet. A lot of it went right over my head at the time. After reading this book, I actually began to understand Java Programming also (thanks to the chapter on Object-Oriented PHP).
I highly recommend this book to people just starting out in the world of programming, databases, and web scripting. I would also highly recommend it to people coming in with a lot of experience in other programming languages. Welling and Thomson somehow find that very delicate balance between satisfying the needs of 'newbies' and programming veterans alike.
