IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Publisher: Digital Press
Authors: Ken England
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Publisher: Digital Press
Authors: Ken England
Rating: 5/5
If you want to really understand SQL Server, and get a better insight on database technology in general, this is the book to read. Ken England covers everything from SQL Server's internal workings (how it accesses tables & indexes) to query and index optimization. This is the kind of thing they don't teach you in college. Real-world, useful examples and techniques abound in this book. For instance, England goes over a few undocumented DBCC commands and includes an extended section on using the query execution plan to fine-tune indexes and queries. Also covered is the use of lock hints (as well as the underlying technology), hardware considerations, and a lot more. That said, I would recommend this book to anyone who deals with SQL Server on ANY level, from DBA's to web developers. Pair this book with The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL by Ken Henderson and you've got a great start on real database development.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 5 Power Programming (Bruce Perens Open Source)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Andi Gutmans, Stig Bakken, Derick Rethans
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP 5 Power Programming (Bruce Perens Open Source)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Andi Gutmans, Stig Bakken, Derick Rethans
Rating: 3/5
The title says it all for power programmers if you are new to the php world and web applications in general getting into this book may be tough. Ok, they have a whole chapter devoted for the basics but its not a tutorial for you to learn how to do php the main focus of this book is the new object oreintation in php5 and it goes indepth with pear it allows you to really take your website application scheme and shows you what you can do with the php5 it now has a database built in with it but again for those of you who may want to read this book to learn the basics it may not be for you it requires that you have a fairly wide knowledge base of programming in general php is basically the best of all kinds of programming languages as the authors put it. There are some good examples for web applications but I think that they could probably have a site with the tutorials or a cd with php5 on it compiled differently for those different types of unix. Coming from the people who had for the most part created php it s a solid book could have gone through some more proof reads as I saw some mistakes which is just the critically anal side of me showing but I think it would be a good book to read if you have dealt with the php world before and are wanting more about the newest verion then go for it but if are just wanting to learn try something else
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
I have just read two cool freaking books! Google Hacks by Calishain and Dornfest. And Make Every Girl Want You by Fate and Reil. They both give you a behind-the-scenes look: the former at the most powerful search engine on earth, and the latter at the most mis-understood beings on earth (women). I never realized that Google is so powerful!! We got this book at my company (I work in an IT department), and have been passing it around non-stop. We have already started implementing some of the suggestions, and have a project on the table to rebuild our web site to take advantage of others. And don't be deceived by the title: hacker doesn't mean hacker in a bad way. It's OK to hack into Google: you're not causing any problems! The cool thing about this book is the depth of the hacks. I mean: these aren't just Boolean searching tips. This involves using Google API calls to build and modify scripts! How cool! And powerful!!
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 am learning Oracle now in the biggest computer school in Beijing. All of our classmates think this book is the best one we have read 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
This is an excellent book if you are developing for SQL Server. It starts off with administration/setup. Creating tables, views, triggers and stored procedures each have their own chapters. The only database I knew before this was ms-access. We had to port our database to MS-SQL. This book was a great help. It also gave me insights and suggestions on how to improve my database (using stored procedures) in the future. I highly recommend this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 XML
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Luis Argerich, Chris Lea, Ken Egervari, Matt Anton, Chris Hubbard, James Fuller, Charlie Killian
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP4 XML
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Luis Argerich, Chris Lea, Ken Egervari, Matt Anton, Chris Hubbard, James Fuller, Charlie Killian
Rating: 5/5
As a beginner to PHP and XML i was a bit hesistant to
pick up this book, but as i flipped through the first few chapters in a book store i was sure this was the book for me.
I have read this giant of a book from cover to cover and i am well on my way to practically implementing the concepts i picked up (esp. in the XML RPC chapter and example) at work here.Here is a breakdown of who should read what:*Beginner to PHP and XML: Cover to Cover;)
*Beginner to PHP, Proficient in XML : Again Cover to Cover;)
*Proficient in PHP, Proficient in XML : Can afford to skip first few chaptersNo doubt this is the best book i have read. Kudos to all involved.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
I had a tight deadline on a job that required heavy transact SQL programming, and after buying this book with no knowledge of stored procedures or transact SQL, I was coding what I needed to have done withing a couple days of picking it up.Not only does it teach you fully about T-SQL coding, but also has includes a great SQL reference, how to use indexes properly, teaches you about transactions, how to wor**with cursors, how to handle erorrs, temporary objects (tables), triggers, views... you name it, this book has it.This book has saved my life on this particular job, and I want to thank O'Reilly for writing another KICK ASS book that has become my T-SQL (and overall SQL Server) bible.I highly recommend this book to anyone that needs to learn about T-SQL
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE/MCSD: SQL Server 7 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 3/5
Title: MCSE/MCSD: SQL Server 7 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 3/5
I have several books of the series Study Guide, but this seems simply a summary of the "Sql Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training".
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Excellent. Paul Conte and Mike Otey are well known in the Midrange AS/400 world for their concise, no-nonsense approach to programming the AS/400 in a variety of languages(i.e. C, RPG, SQL/400, etc.). Here, in the SQL Server world, starting with "SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide", and now for SQL Server 2000, they apply the same style and manner and succeed admirably. The book is chock-full of examples, and performance tips, and even includes a SQL primer! They leave no stone unturned, and cover every aspect of SQL DDL, DML, and T-SQL. Lastly, their coverage of OLEDB/ADO and XML completes the picture. As I said, if you could only buy one book on SQL Server 2000, this is the one to buy!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Development Using SQL-DMO, SQL-NS & DTS
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Frank Miller, Rachelle Reese, Martin Harwar
Rating: 2/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Development Using SQL-DMO, SQL-NS & DTS
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Frank Miller, Rachelle Reese, Martin Harwar
Rating: 2/5
I bought this book to assist me with a project that required moving and manipulating data between heterogeneous data sources. DTS seemed to be the right tool to do this and that proved to be true in the end.However, this book was not a great assistance. The authors fill the book with various VB examples, which would be great, if I was augmenting my DTS packages with VB - but I wasn't. Rather, what would have been of great, are examples of raising errors, handling non-tabular input and output, and any nuances not revealed in Microsoft's help documents (which ended up being my main source of help).In short, unless you are looking strictly for VB answers to DTS questions, I'd wait to see what other books come out. And they will, because DTS actually works great once its set up correctly.
