IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 System Administration
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Rating: 5/5
Title: MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 System Administration
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Rating: 5/5
Very well organized. I am sure I will continue to use this book as a resource as my knowledge in SQL grows. This author knows how to present material so that a novice administrator can understand. Highly recommended.
Product: Book
Title: Making Use of PHP
Publisher:
Authors: Ashok Appu
Rating: 2/5
Title: Making Use of PHP
Publisher:
Authors: Ashok Appu
Rating: 2/5
This book is sinply great for beginners who want to begin programming with PHP. The concepts are dealt with utmost care so as to impart the programming basics in the best possible way. The best part of the book is the unique methodology that it uses to deliver technical content. A real-life problem statement is included in the beginning of each chapter and aa solution is given at the end of the chapter. The code snippets in each chapter with output help the reader understand each concept properly.This book is indeed a great buy for beginners! I really was able to build a strong base for PHP after reading this book.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
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: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
I simply just lost my money. Having had a lot of success with the first edition, i went on to buy this book in the hope that i could pick up more tricks to help hone my web development skills.
First, i as a customer, thought the cover of the book sucked - why would a SAMS book have a New Riders cover..ok! i thought i shouldn't be all that sensitive and tried to get beyond teh cover story, only to find to my harrowing experience that the code in the book has several errors. I wrote in despair to the suport team at the publisher's and i have not met with any response till date - are they ashamed that they have sold me a mediocre product? I had faith in the SAMS brand, and esp the authors but i want to say in my individual capacity that i have simply been cheated.
I don't want your book, you can simply have it back.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
Publisher: Apress
Authors: W. Jason Gilmore
Rating: 5/5
Title: A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
Publisher: Apress
Authors: W. Jason Gilmore
Rating: 5/5
Most of the PHP books I have suffer from simply being a "monkee see, monkee do" approach to PHP. You can't really learn PHP from them, when you use them you end up not really knowing anything about PHP and can't go much beyond canned scripts. Gilmore's book (which I was led to by his great articles on his web) is diffferent, when you finish it, you will really understand PHP and can use it really effectively. I have half a dozen books on PHP and this is my favorite.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 1/5
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 1/5
After reading most of the book, I've concluded that this book is for amateurs. If you want to learn a little bit of XML, but nearly enough to do large projects, then maybe this book will be good for you. But once you need to do a large project or you need some actual advance over and beyond the syntax, concepts and APIs, the books won't help you; it's not even up to date in some areas. However the book is very easy to read, so I give it 1 star. However, there are better books that describe PHP and XML in much greater detail and in a way that is still very inviting to new comers. If you want to truely get the best knowledge for your buck, don't by this book. The Wrox book seems like a better choice so I'm going to pick that up next. I'm going to sell this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
I started with Cold Fusion and SQL a number of months ago, knowing next to nothing about either. Although this book does not cover Cold Fusion specifically, it is populated with many 10 minute lessons which can be applied to 'any' online programming language. Forta includes many real world examples on each lesson, very descriptive explanations and an overall healthy dose of common SQL syntax, including select, insert, modify, delete, where, joins, sorting, groups, like (used with searching databases), table combinations, subqueries, aggregate functions, transaction processing and much, much more. At the end of the book, Forta has included simple, easy to follow instructions on connecting to databases with popular programming languages like Cold Fusion, ASP, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual C++, DB2 and more. You will definitely keep this book by your side in your SQL adventures.Steve - Web developer http://www.stevesdomain.net
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
"SQL Pocket Guide" is a short reference book for SQL DML (Data Manipulation Language = insert, update, delete, select verbs) and derived statements (merge in ORACLE, replace in MySQL is missing) for the following databases:
- ORACLE (9i und 10g)
- DB2
- SQL Server
- MySQL
Jonathan Gennick explains the ANSI SQL commands and the special implementations of the different databases. For every statement you will find at least one example that can be tested on Jonathan's example data (available from the O'Reilly website). This book does NOT describe the DDL (e.g. create table) or DCL (e.g. grant) statements of the respective databases. Maybe this book should have been named "SQL (DML) pocket guide" to avoid different expectations.Being an ORACLE person, I can not comment much on the correctness of the information about the other databases, however I found it quite interesting to see the comparison (ORACLE seems to implement most options).I found the organization of the book a bit strange when I read it from cover to back (I would have placed type conversions and literals together). If you are using this book as a reference this should not concern you because I found the index to be very good. A chapter numbering (or bigger differences in the font size for the chapter levels) would have made it easier for me to keep track of the subchapter level while reading.The coverage of the DML statement's possibilities is quite high and lots of exceptions are covered. I (re)learned a lot of things like WITH in ORACLE, NVL2, CASE statement, RETURNING with UPDATE, INSERT und DELETE when I read this book.I will continue to use this book as a starting point when I don't remember how to use a certain SQL/DML feature (reference lookup). "SQL Pocket Reference" already saved a colleague of mine valuable hours (because I just reread about the MERGE statement). You will not be able to learn SQL with this book but you will probably save some time with it, if you write DML a lot.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Had my hopes up when I saw this new book on stored procs. Boy what a let donw. Don't bother with this one - its not worth the effort. Worst book I ever bought.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced PHP Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: George Schlossnagle
Rating: 1/5
Title: Advanced PHP Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: George Schlossnagle
Rating: 1/5
This not a terrible book -- it's a decent book with a poor title. It should be called something like "A Random Walk Through Web Programming with PHP." There's certainly nothing advanced about it. This book would be ideal for someone who has just learned PHP but lacks any real knowledge of computer science.
