IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Robert (The Author) surely knows his business! This book is a terrific book both for everyone interested in SQL Server 7 programming and Database design as well. This book is so complete and convers so many topics. I HIGHLY Recommend this book! Wrox has done it again! I am just waiting for the SQL Server 2000 book from them!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Dreamweaver MX: Advanced PHP Web Development
Publisher: Glasshaus
Authors: Glasshaus Author Team
Rating: 2/5
Title: Dreamweaver MX: Advanced PHP Web Development
Publisher: Glasshaus
Authors: Glasshaus Author Team
Rating: 2/5
I purchased this book shortly after it was published, before there were any other books available on the subject. The author assumes (by mentioning it in an early chapter only) you will be using Windows OS, I wanted the information for Mac OS X. If you are taking advantage of Mac OS X and it's Unix platform, you won't find any information in this book that is relevant to develping PHP and MySQL on an OS X platform.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 5/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 5/5
It sure tries to teach you something but cannot achieve...
As everyone mentioned before, it has countless errors and typos. But there is more than that. Book is out of focus. Examples makes no sense and not related to each other, which is very confusing.
A piece of code here and other piece is there. Every example is coming out of nowhere. It doesn't have a project. So everytime different variables, situations. Like, in one example it uses Flintstones character names ($name=Fred, $name2 = fred etc.). Next example is subjects of a class (math, science, history, english etc.), on other one it uses very random strings like ("I like paris in november", "the key is in my pants")
If you want to learn PHP, stick with "PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition" By Luke Welling, Laura Thompson.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 4/5
The book has a great summarization of database concepts in the first few chapters. It discusses thoroughly many concepts surrounding the GUI of SQL Server. Where it lacks though is the discussion of transact-sql. I do not know if I am being overly harsh on this issue, but overall the book was excellent. I went and purchased The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL and looked at the Microsoft Press SQL Server book to get additional information. All these books I have mentioned are excellent resources to get a firm handle on SQL Server, not to mention a nice DB Design book for reference.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 5/5
This is a well written, fast reading book that provides the reader with the information needed but not with the fluff that we do not need. I used this book to pass the Oracle Certification Exan 1Z0-147 : Oracle9i: Program with PL/SQL. If you own this book and 'Oracle PL/SQL' by Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl (published by O'reily), you probably have what you need (for understanding PL/SQL) ... enjoy
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 5/5
I liked this book. It was practical and it told me everything I needed to know about the internals and how to setup apache in general. I have been trying to get a book on Tomcat and Apache, but this was not it. Other than that, it told me all I needed to know about Apache, its modules, and its setup and operation.
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
If you already know the basics and are interested in intelligent database design, this is the book for you. It delves into the internal workings of SQL Server and helps you understand how the program actually stores your data and the factors that could affect database performance. (After reading this book, I was able to redesign my some tables to reduce long-running queries by about 90%.)You can also buy the more recent edition on SQL Server 2000 if you are planning to upgrade soon.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 DBA Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Orryn Sledge
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 DBA Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Orryn Sledge
Rating: 5/5
A comprehensive guide to all aspects of SQL server which is clearly written in an accessible style. This book has helped me transfer my existing DBA skills in Informix/Ingres to SQL server. I liked the worked examples which help greatly in understanding key features such as backup and restore. One niggle is that the section covering master databse recovery omits the fact that the database must be in single user mode (sqlservr.exe -m). I can also recommend:- Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant - Microsoft Press The Guru's Guide to Transact SQL - Henderson
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
A good, concise, thorough, compact review of SQL92 in 350 pages, with user-friendly and thoughtful organisation and layout, and some examples. Like other reviewers I am puzzled by complaints that it is not a primer for SQL beginners and does not cover vendor extensions to the SQL language. If you need a primer, by all means buy a primer. If you need a book on a vendor's product, buy one of those. There are dozens!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
PHP is a great language and this book explains the ins and outs for a beginner with some programming knowledge it was easy and fun to read. Great examples!
