IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
The book has been so needed by the people who need to understand stored procedure design. And by focusing on the actual application of design concepts to Microsoft technologies, the book takes an important step in the process that makes it more illustrative. It's easy-to-read style works.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 4/5
This is, indeed, a great book to pass this exam(1Z0-147). Actually, there is no prescribed book(as of now!!), for this exam. This book fairly covers most of the topics that are specified in the official exam syllabus. However, topics on Large objects are not covered in this book extensively. I suggest to search on google for LOBS(This is how i got some notes on LOBS). This book is good to study functions, procedures, packages, triggers, and some DBMS packages, but it doesn't cover LOBS, managing dependencies. Overall, I can give 4 stars to this book, as it helped me to pass the exam.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server Security
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: David Litchfield
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server Security
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: David Litchfield
Rating: 5/5
If you do anything with SQL and need top secure it, please read this book.Securing SQL is not rocket science, but it is easy to do wrong.This book shows how to do it right.
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: 5/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
This book is wordily! However if you are new to database stuff then this is a book for you. Otherwise this is not a good reference. Unfortunately my book doesn't come with a CD so I wasn't able to judge the CD yet.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 2/5
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 2/5
As I read this book, I slowly became more and more disgusted with the author's total lack of grammatical structure and coherence. Though the book was written at a 3rd grade level, the content is still there. Some of his Access/Oracle comparison is questionable in relevance, but overall a decent book to start learning SQL. However, I would recommend a different book solely because of the amazingly bad writing style that actually got in the way of my learning SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
For a non-expert in programming this is a very well paced and easy book to read and understand. It also, after 8 chapters, has very few, if any, errors. A very enjoyable book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
easy to read
error free
covers everything
i read the instruction on the train
type in the examples at work
they work
my site works
the same examples work at home on 98 then at work on solaris
sessions work
database works
xml works
this is an advanced book and i can still use it
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Web Sites
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffrey Byrne, Jeffry Byrne
Rating: 2/5
Title: Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Web Sites
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffrey Byrne, Jeffry Byrne
Rating: 2/5
Having worked with Access for a long time, I wanted a book that would help with constructing sites in SQL Server. This book was way too simplistic and spends far too much time on installing NT and IIS, and not enough on 'building sites with SQL Server'. Only cursory look at ASP code to actually interact with your site, almost all of it via Interdev. Index is lacking in detail, even common interface elements. If you're a very beginner, then maybe this book will be good for you, but I'd look elsewhere.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
Me and my colleagues had to rely on the out of date Sybase Transact SQL books until a colleague brought a copy from Sybase TechWave 2004 and few of us bought this book as well. We have found it up-to-date, reasonably comprehensive and rich in practical tips on how to write efficient queries. Our company (a medium size financial sector player) wants to purchase a PDF license of this book and we then will use it as a base for our Internal Standards. We all think that it will be money well spent. On the sidelines our DBAs have also used the procedures under "Index Fragmentation" to measure the index fragmentation and perform defragging of the indexes and tables, thus improving the query perormance and space utilisation in the database. We are generally pleased with it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 1/5
I bought this book due to the great feedback that had been posted at the time of my purchase. I regret to inform the community that this book will waste your time and money. Many of the descriptions are directly from the PHP website (example... in_array) and do nothing to expand on its usage. If someone finds a PHP book equivalent to O'Reilly's "Programming Perl" please let me know. That is the best book I've read for any language... I just wish there was something like it in PHP.Beginnners and advanced developers should avoid this book unless you have a piece of furniture in the house that is REALLY uneven.
