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Publisher: Rating: 5/5
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Publisher: Rating: 5/5
These are the best PL/SQL tips around! Just a few of these tips would be worth the money, but this book looks at the basics, standards, tuning, DBA and helpful scripts. You only have to read a few of the tips to get instant success. Thanks for this great one! Well worth it!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 4/5
I have to question whether any of the other reviewers even looked at the table of contents before purchasing this book:Chapter 1. SQL, Vendor Implementations, and Some History - a general overview of SQL and where it comes from; Chapter 2. Foundational Concepts - The general theory behind how a sql works; Chapter 3. SQL Statements Command Reference - "Quick SQL Command Reference"; Chapter 4. SQL Functions - A standard function reference and vendor extensions; Chapter 5. Unimplemented SQL99 Commands - commands in the sql standard which aren't implemented by vendors (MS, Oracle); So as to what it says it covers, it does it quite well. Already being quite familiar with SQl, I still found this book to be useful both as a quick reference to commands as well as for a deeper understanding into how SQL works. This book makes an excellent companion to Transact-SQL Programming, also by Oreilly. If you need a complete SQL reference, get Transact-SQL. If you're looking for a background and introduction to SQL, get this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: William C. Amo
Rating: 4/5
Title: Transact-SQL
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: William C. Amo
Rating: 4/5
For an experienced developer new to SQL Server, this was a great book. Clearly written, good examples, good coverage (see how many others explain JOINS as clearly, or describe functions like COALESCE). Got me up and running quickly with a new SQL project. This alone saved many times the cost of the book. Would like to see it updated from version 7 to 2000.
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 an excellent addition to any shops reference material. It contains great examples and covers everything from simple select statements to complex math functions. I have learned a lot from reading this book. Highly recommend
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
Except for some missing hints (pg. 57-59) and some mixed up hint syntax, I found the book accurate and very enlightening. I've now used it on two from-scratch VLDB projects. Almost every page has something I was able to use to refine SQL statements & PL/SQL server-side code. For example, pg. 206, the section on MAX & MIN statements was the key to my latest project being able to process 20X the number of records we currently do. The section on learning to read tkprof output was helpful. The bibliography was also great (but is probably outdated now). Worth every penny!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 4/5
We been looking for a book that covered in detail all the SQL comands. We looked at every SQL book out there, and found SQL Unleashed to be the most comprehensive and detailed with plenty of examples.It paid for itself many times over the first day. For example, try finding in other books how to handle division by zero in your SQL. It had a complete explantion with examples.Overall, a comprehensive reference guide that you will find using over and over.
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
I enjoyed the book very much. I have been researching for more efficient methods to create and maintain data driven reports. "The Rational Guide To: SQL Server Reporting Services" provided an excellent feature and technical overview allowing me to make a well informed decision to move forward with implementing Reporting Services. The book answered many questioned I had such as creating and maintaining reports, SharePoint integration, security, multiple data sources, and many more. I also liked the numerous demonstration "steps", easy to read shorter format with examples and details, extremely well organized, called out "Notes", bonus material, and effective screenshots.
It is refreshing to finish a technical book wanting more rather than feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, allowing me to spend more time working with the product.
I am looking forward to reading "The Rational Guide To: Building SharePoint Web Parts".
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
Google.com is a search engine that came onto the web in 1998. Since then it has grown to be one of the more used search engines on the web. In April of 2002 , the Google Engineering Team released an API to their search engine technology. Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Google Hacks) gives the reader a background on how to use google effectively, a detailed listing of google's services, and many ways to access google.com.I like the new Hacks series of books from O'Reilly. Each title in this series gives the reader 100 tips and tools on the topic at hand. Each tip includes a brief description of the hack and a complexity rating. In Google Hacks the authors give each tip a complete walk through, with many including a full code listing.The two chapters on Third-Party and Non-API google introduces the reader to new ways to get at google data that many users may not have thought of before. Hack 37 is an explanation of how to get google web searches via email. There are six hacks that if used and abused will get your IP address banned from google, so use at your own risk.The chapters on the google API make up the meat of the book. The API is used to offer ideas to show the reader what is possible with the API. For those that are more visually minded, hack #64 is about the TouchGraph Google Browser. TouchGraph is a Java applet allows the user to start with a page and then it graphically shows pages that are similar to it. For the non-perl inclined, hacks are included, with full source code, for Python, Java, C#, and PHP.Anyone who programs web applications and manages websites needs to get this book, if only for the final eight hacks in the book. One hack (#95) delves into the PageRank algorithm that google uses to rank web pages. Hack 96, 26 Step to 15K hits a day, should be required reading for anyone wanting to start a web site and have it take off.At [the price], this book is a great buy. It doesn't suffer from any glaring editing problems, and is very useful to anyone using google.com.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache and MySQL
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: George K. Thiruvathukal, Thomas W. Christopher, John P. Shafaee
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache and MySQL
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: George K. Thiruvathukal, Thomas W. Christopher, John P. Shafaee
Rating: 5/5
Hello, Everyone. First, we thank all of you for the generally positive comments about our book. We worked hard to bring you a book of high quality and are still alive.
I wish to point out that the nature of this project was to provide a solid framework that, initially, was aimed at helping our readers to learn the issues involved in developing serious web applications. Think of Slither as a web framework aimed at being understood pedagogically, similar to what Minix aimed to do for teaching/learning operating systems.
That said, a number of things have changed since we wrote the book. All of our day jobs became more demanding, similar to what's going on in much of the US workforce. We are committed to evolving Slither (the framework described in our book) and look forward to involving others in the project via our new home on SourceForge. A new release is already in the planning stages, which we hope will make Slither one of the best web programming frameworks ever--especially for Python programmers!
For those who wish to grab the latest code, please visit the Slither project at SourceForge. We do not post URLs due to Amazon's guidelines.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
I agree that this book is a worthwhile purchase for any serious PHP developer - it offers a wealth of useful ideas and immediately became the most used resource on my PHP bookshelf. But there are a couple of weaknesses that other reviews have not touched on.The main disappointment is the choice of topics coverered - there are some pretty major omissions. As others point out, this is not a book for beginners - a fair bit of knowledge is assumed. Yet much space is taken up with very basic topics which are well covered in the introductory texts, such as creating a class or opening a file.While this has the virtue of completeness, it has reduced the space for detailed coverage of the really tough issues that are beyond the scope of the PHP introductions.Of the more advanced topics, I particularly liked the database API - this is the most elegant and efficient solution I have seen, and is worth the price on its own. And there is plenty of detail on email handling, socket programming and XML. But other key topics such as form handling, data validation and user authentication are barely touched on. Given that the built-in facilities for error handling are still poor in PHP4, I was particularly disappointed that this issue is not really addressed. Another weakness is the rather superficial coverage of the challenges of building usable and efficient search facilities.My other concern is the rather condensed coding style. Comments are pretty thin on the ground, and the local variable names are often cryptic. So you sometimes have to work quite hard to understand what is going on.Overall, a great contribution to the PHP literature, but not as comprehensive as it might be. Perhaps this could be addressed in the second edition??
