IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
An excellent book with both concise and informative content. I would recommend this book to anybody who is either knew to the subject or who wishes to further their knowledge in this area.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
This book lacks so much crucial information needed to pass the exam. I read the first half which covered 228 and then grabbed the readiness review and was shocked at how little information the All-in-One book covered. I'm not even going to bother reading the second half for 229, and am looking for another title before attempting the 228 exam.
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
What I like the most about this book is the indepth explanations. No one explains complex technical topics better than Ken Henderson. No one. The attention to detail and the exhausting subject material coverage are everywhere in every book I've read of his. This one carries on that tradition. In fact, Ken really out does himself in this one - it's his best work yet. You might think with 600 code samples that this book would just be a code library, but you'd be wrong. The book is loaded with good code, to be sure, but it's also laden with great explanations and thorough topic exploration. I absolutely love the book and wish more were like it.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 1/5
This book covers the objectives for the SQL Server 7 administration exam in a reasonable way. However, it fails to achieve greatness because it is based on a beta version of SQL Server 7 (probably beta 3), and it came out long before anyone had seen the FINAL version of the Microsoft test. As such, the book has a few flaws and probably fails to cover some of the areas that will be important on the test. Even so, I found the book well worth the money I paid. In fact, unlike some of the other exam guides I've bought in the past, this one will stay on my shelf even after I pass.
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 looking for a book like this for about five years. I wanted something that went beyond the Microsoft documentation. Something that told me all the little details they usually left out. Well I finally found it. This book gives it all. Its loaded with good examples. It doesn't just tell you how to do something. It shows you. I couldn't believe you could do all the stuff you can do with just Transact SQL. I guess it comes down to knowing what your doing. One more thing: I learned more from the tuning chapter than I have in some whole books on the subject. It was great. This is the best SQL book around.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Brian Larson
Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Brian Larson
Rating: 3/5
Its basically for a non-programmer. and it says basically on the cover thats its for DBAs. so it was my fault. too simple and straightforward. but it was good for an introduction.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 5/5
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 5/5
This book gives an in-depth overview of technologies used to create e-commerce web applications with Microsoft technologies. It is great as a reference of SQL and ASP procedures, which can be readily used. The code examples are comprehensive and complete. I wish however, that the presented examples would be more consistent. For instance, the database design contains special tables for Product Attributes, but the Shopping Basket table does allow only for Color and Size attribute. Another issue is, that every ASP page accesses SQL script to fill the session variables, which should be set only once. I think, that the second thought may be given to this book for the next release, and then it will deserve much higher ratings.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 3/5
If you're like me, you like to dive right in and start coding immediately to see what can be done. To do that, one needs a good reference on the available functions, syntax, etc. That's not what you'll get with Medinets' book.While it does have a lots of useful information for beginning programmers and developers using MySQL and XML, it lacks depth. The book tries to cover too much territory and as a result fails to deliver enough useful information to make PHP accessible to all programmers.There are plenty of code examples but they often refer to code used in previous chapters. I like to use books such as this as a reference and having to constantly cross-reference to other snippets of code is time consuming. I guess if I sat and read the book cover to cover, this would be less of a problem. However, most of the book is so rudimentary for most experienced programmers you would probably skim through it to get to what you need to know.The most frustrating part of trying to really 'use' this book is that there is no function reference. Just a list of the functions without any parameter references or anything. I end up going to the PHP web site and getting more useful information online than in the book.If not for some of the information on pattern matching, SQL and PHP installation, this book would have little value for me.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server Black Book: The Database Designer's and Administrator's Essential Guide to Setting Up Efficient Client-Server Tasks with SQL Server
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Patrick Dalton
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server Black Book: The Database Designer's and Administrator's Essential Guide to Setting Up Efficient Client-Server Tasks with SQL Server
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Patrick Dalton
Rating: 1/5
You know how your 2-year old can outgrow clothes on the drive home from the store? This is a book written with the same kind of longevity. Everything in this book is trivial, shallow, and obvious. There are at least 10 better books in the Amazon search list on SQL 6.5. I really like this publisher but keep looking, there are many fine SQL 6.5 books out there and this aint one of them.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
If you are new to SQL Server, this book is right choice
