IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
I use Google every day to seek out the information I need on the Web. Even though I am an experienced Google user, I learned a few tricks I didn't know in this e-doc. I found the Expert Search Tools, especially the information about syntax and structuring searches, to be most useful. Tips in this section tell how Google uses wildcards, how to search within a specific site, how to search for certain file types, and more. You will even discover how to get around Google's ten keyword search limit.The section Cool Google Hacks and Tricks--maybe it should have been called "Stupid Google Tricks" ;o) --doesn't actually involve using Google. Instead, it gives some tools to obtain and use Google search results in new ways, including searching via email. This is a great reference to using Google effectively. Although some of the tips are fairly basic, I believe I more than got my money's worth. I would recommend this e-doc to anyone who wants to get more out of their Google searches.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Mastering SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
Title: Mastering SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
This book was extremely useful in learning SQL. I had virtually no SQL background prior to reading this book, but Gruber's writing soon made interacting with this powerful database easy. The book starts off with an introduction to databases and then quickly delves into how to query, insert and update data into a database.The examples in the book are down to earth and illustrate what the author is attempting to show. The result sets are also clearly displayed. Helpful questions and answers appear at the end of each chapter. Gruber also covers more complex searching and eventually gets into the more complicated portions of SQL: rights management, indices, optimization and Java interaction. There is also a helpful (and lengthy) appendix at the end that covers SQL commands.The first part of the book was extremely helpful to me. I felt confident in the what I was learning and Gruber's explanations made sense. However, the material was a bit a dry. The same data set was used throughout and while being helpful in the fact that it was familiar, it didn't liven up the book. I found the middle portion of book somewhat helpful; the information was sort of sketchy and wasn't as comprehensive as I would have hoped. If one quickly wants to learn how to manipulate an SQL, this book is a definite must-have. It is easy to find information and the material was presented in a logical format. However, I'd go to a more heavy duty book on database management rather than this one for those topics.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
Very informative book that examines the SQL Server rather than the SQL Language. Good coverage of history. Well written and an enjoyable read.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pascuzzi, Alvin Chang
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pascuzzi, Alvin Chang
Rating: 1/5
I'm not sure the authors have acutally taken the exam, for if they had, they wouldn't have concentrated so heavily on syntax. This book has very little to do with exam 70-028, and I'm a bit disappointed with the publisher (Certification Insider Press, Coriolis) who usually does a fine job of putting together a test prep.
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
Sometimes when a book has been given a high rating by an over whelming number of people, my inclination is to be a little suspicious. However, this book is worth every penny. I learned something almost immediately reading this book. What I liked most about this book is the fact that you do not have to read one chapter to understand another one. The examples in this book do work, and I have used a few as a guide to real life problems. Overall, I thought that this book is one of the best T-SQL books out there. If you want to improve your T-SQL skills you can spend the $... bucks for this book, or take a $2000+ class. This the best book on the market for T-SQL period.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Graeme Malcolm
Rating: 5/5
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Graeme Malcolm
Rating: 5/5
I never expected so much useful information into such a small book. Good books don't sell by weight or page count.
I found this book concise and clear (this man knows how to teach). It sure doesn't explain everything about the subject, but it gives the big picture, with an impressive number of details too.
Ideal to start working in small time.
NOTE about who is this book for:
As title state, this book teaches how to use the XML features of SQL Server 2000, not how to use SQL2000, so if you don't know SQL Server you better read something else first.
From the XML XSL XPath X... side, this book is also for novices as it has a very good appendix that teaches all you need to understand the book.
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
This book has a wealth of great information about PHP, MySQL, SQL, and web site backend design. It has some great PHP / MySQL example projects that will show you how to put what you've learned in the book to use in the real web development world. If you want to learn PHP / MySQL development you can't go wrong with this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Administrator's Guidebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Carl H. Speshock
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Administrator's Guidebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Carl H. Speshock
Rating: 4/5
If you manage multiple SQL Servers for a living, you need this book. I turn to it again and again. It is not your father's admin guide, but that is what I like about it. You get the impression from reading it that the author has managed a server or two.I don't keep many books on my desk for ready access, but this is one of them. I highly recommend this one and suggest you read it if you want to be a professional SQL DBA.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 5/5
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 5/5
Finally a text that goes beyond the high school like documentation packaged with Tomcat. I found everything I needed. I especially found value in the Chapters on deploying other Jakarta technologies into the Tomcat container.Great text.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
I wasn't new to programming, having coded in C for years. However, I wasn't too familiar with database based programming or even web-based programming. This book gives you a very good start into these areas. I could finish it in fact in less than 10 hrs. This book is most useful to novices who have no prior knowledge of programming of any sort and have to start off with php. This is just an introductory book. It isn't adequate for advanced programming, but that's not the objective of the bookAll in all, worth investing!
