IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 5/5
Mr Hawthorne is well-versed not just in MS SQL Server, but its' main competitor as well. In another publication he describes Oracle's beginnings as a contractor for the CIA. Consequently it comes as no surprise that his excellent beginners' hands-on introduction to MS SQL Server uses a fictional spy vs spy theme.For SQL Server newbies such as myself, reading, learning and building the book's spy database project is a blast! Who said "Edutainment" is kidstuff?
Product: Book Textbook Binding
Title: McSe Training Guide: SQL Server 6.5 Design and Implementation (Training Guides (New Riders))
Publisher: New Riders Pub
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird
Rating: 3/5
Title: McSe Training Guide: SQL Server 6.5 Design and Implementation (Training Guides (New Riders))
Publisher: New Riders Pub
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird
Rating: 3/5
I believe that the level of the text is reasonably geared for the intended audience. (If you're an old SQL pro, you probably don't really need a book like this and if you're a complete novice, you're probably not ready to think about taking the exam) This series uses the framework of the published Microsoft Exam topics to arrange the material covered. Despite the constraint, this book does a rather decent job of actually teaching one to use SQL Server. The authors frequently reference outside material, often the online docs, for further study. There are extensive exercises and question sets at the end of each chapter, though the questions are not "exam sound alikes". In any case I would suggest that someone hitting SQL cold, would do well to first spend some time with MS Access to learn the fundamentals of Relational Data Base Design (Teach Yourself Access 97 in 14 Days from Sams might be a good choice). Follow up with this book, and then the SQL Server online docs.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 2/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 2/5
This is a Great book, but it focuses on many items at the time and dont quite explain the items as they should. This book is allways a must, for all the people interested in getting started in e-commerce because it takes a tour to all the tech knowledge needed to implement e-commerce solutions.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Optimizing Transact-SQL : Advanced Programming Techniques
Publisher: SQL Forum Press
Authors: David Rozenshtein, Anatoly Abramovich, Eugene Birger
Rating: 4/5
Title: Optimizing Transact-SQL : Advanced Programming Techniques
Publisher: SQL Forum Press
Authors: David Rozenshtein, Anatoly Abramovich, Eugene Birger
Rating: 4/5
Sorry fellows, but reading most of reviews to this book, I found them a bit unfair. I used to keep daily inventory balance of 200k products for a retail chain's mix, and it used to take 3 hours to finish - that's because all events (selling, return, and so on) were in rows and balance were calculated using group by.instead of group by, and using pivoting technique shown on this book, i rewrote these sp's in way to retrieve events in a row and working in memory (much more faster).that code used to take 3 hours improved so much - now it's taking only up to 20 minutes.I'd agree that these topics shown in this book are very specific, but they are certainly very powerful ways to solve those kind of problems they are intended to solve.I'd complain only on it's price - when I've purchased it I paid US$ 19,00 2 years ago.To the "Three Professors", congratulation and it's a pleasure to learn from you all.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 1/5
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 1/5
You could get more from the Oracle OAS and WEBDB manual. This book is thin(232 pages), however, it spends 50 pages introducing what is HTML and PL/SQL. The WebDB introduction is too simple and doesn't have any examples. System admin staff in the OAS section is OK for the very begineers, but isn't as resourceful as the OAS online manual, besides the examples are done against OAS 3.0 not the current version 4.0.8. The PL/SQL toolkit section is OK. but I would prefer to read the OAS web developer online manual. Well not worth the money, I am going to return this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
I bought "Beginning PHP4" first, expecting to learn more later from "Professional PHP". Unfortunately, the "Professional" book was written in 1999 and mostly covers PHP3; the first half of this book is introductory material similar to that covered in "Beginning". The "Beginning" book was written in 2000, and covers PHP4. Therefore, the two books don't confer a chronological sense of "Part 1" and "Part 2", as I had anticipated.In my opinion, if you have one of these two Wrox books, you won't need the other. Since "Beginning PHP4" is newer, get that one for an excellent introduction to the subject, then get "PHP Black Book" or another advanced book to continue your studies.By the way, I hope that "extremeperl" gives more thought to book ratings in the future. He gave this book a 1 star rating because he thought that PHP was a poorly written language, and preferred Perl. Since the authors had no hand in creating the PHP language, it's extremely unfair to criticize PHP by giving poor ratings to this book ...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
This book is out of date. The code in it WILL NOT WORK with the current version of php. I have spent more time trying to find out why things are wrong. There are also quite a few typo's, and the book company apparently has gone out of business (all the websites for help are gone).Again, buy a more recent book, also the directions for setting up mysql are incorrect, and the versions of everything on the CD are out of date and insecure.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Lan Times Guide to SQL
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: James R. Groff, Paul N. Weinberg
Rating: 5/5
Title: Lan Times Guide to SQL
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: James R. Groff, Paul N. Weinberg
Rating: 5/5
This is a great book to begin to understand how to write queries for databases in SQL. It starts off with the simple queries, and moves onto the more advanced commands that are used for maintaining databases.It is a simple and clear text, and has been an invaluable source whilst creating databases and writing code to interact with these databases.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 1/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 1/5
This book is great if you can't fall a sleep. One of the worst computer books I ever read. I suggest Sam's teach yourself SQL in 21 days.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: McSe: SQL Server 6.5 Administration Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell, Michael Lee, Sawtell, M. Lee
Rating: 2/5
Title: McSe: SQL Server 6.5 Administration Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell, Michael Lee, Sawtell, M. Lee
Rating: 2/5
I found the book useful as a beginning introduction to SQL admin. However, the questions and exercises did not prepare me for the exam. (Having passed all my Novell tests and the first four MS test the first time,I was surprised not to pass this one the first time, even after much effort.) They were far easier than the actual exam. This might be useful if one were to combine it with the SQL books online as well as another training source.
