IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Clearly Explained (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Clearly Explained (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Rating: 5/5
This book is very simple and is geared toward beginners, does not present advance concepts provides a general idea
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Cristian Darie, Mihai Bucica
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Cristian Darie, Mihai Bucica
Rating: 5/5
Although I have not had a lot of experience with PHP and MySQL, This book was quite surprising. The authors made everything
very straight forward and easy to follow as far as getting a site up and running quickly. For the faint of heart, they also
provide a link to XAMPP which provides an installer for everything such as Apache, PHP and all the other things you need to
get up and running without messing around, which is a definate timesaver. I use Windows xp and XAMPP installed everything I
needed for this project in about 1 minute or less and the PEAR and Smarty modules were equally as fast.
Beginning PHP5 and mySQL E-Commerce is a great way for people interested in Open Source technologies to see exactly how
powerful and customizable their website can be without being too costly to create and / or operate. If you're looking to
build an ECommece site quickly and easily, as well as having something scalable that can be easily customized, this is
definately the book for you. The text and examples are easy to follow and you don't have to be a programmer in order to
accomplish the exercises in the book. Definately a good buy, you'll be glad you did it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
Expanded 2nd Edition (more than 3x larger!)
fyi ... Amazon is including here reviews from both 1st and current 2nd edition. 1st Edition was a "slim" 224 pages (released December 1, 2000 per Amazon). 2nd Edition is 800 pages (released September 27, 2004 per Amazon). From 224 to 800 pages ... hmmm, quite a change!
Per OReilly.com, current 2nd edition covers commercial RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server), and open source implementations (PostgreSQL, and MySQL). fyi, 1st edition did not cover DB2.
2nd Edition is updated to use the most current ANSI standard, SQL2003, as the baseline in comparing each of the RDBMS.
Sample chapter available at OReilly.com. Chapter 4, SQL Functions. As PDF, 28 pages.
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
This Book is very good! When I opened the book I knew almost nothing about php except some commands I got from php.net manual. This book is a very good start for a developer, it explains a lot about mysql use etc. The problem with this book its just too easy, I mean I have learned everything in this book I could find that's needed and I can see its not enough. Yet this book is still very good because it doesn't throw at you some terminology you have no idea about. I'm thinking right now to get more advanced book on php, and I'd recommend the same to others! If you think of learning PHP this is ONE GOOD BOOK TO START FROM!
Product: Book
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 4/5
I found this book easy to read with some very good examples of how to build an application with ASP and SQL Server. I took on another readers review about XML and ISAPI filters, but as a beginner, I don't think that they would have helped me to write an actual application.
This book gave me the start I needed to get into SQL Server. So thank you. It is very rare that you find a book that actual acheives what it sets out it to do.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Optimizing Transact-SQL : Advanced Programming Techniques
Publisher: SQL Forum Press
Authors: David Rozenshtein, Anatoly Abramovich, Eugene Birger
Rating: 1/5
Title: Optimizing Transact-SQL : Advanced Programming Techniques
Publisher: SQL Forum Press
Authors: David Rozenshtein, Anatoly Abramovich, Eugene Birger
Rating: 1/5
At the price I paid, I would have expected this book to be more substantial. Instead, it's just a collection of reprints from SQL Forum. I'm not amused. Moreover, the techniques shown in these reprinted articles are rather obscure and difficult to read. I'd be hesitant to use them in my own code for fear of retribution by my team members. Other than limiting the number of SELECTs you write, I don't see any real advantage to them.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 4/5
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: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Starting out fresh in SQL server, I first read most of Thearon Willis' "Beginning" book. With many years of IT experience, I quickly switched to this book, and am very impressed. I feel it has delivered on its hope to make me a competent (SQL Server) database developer.The strongest points in my opinion include:- SQL Server basics, and essentials such as data storage, index structures, locks, constraints, transactions, triggers, advanced queries, cursors, security, replication, bcp, full-text search, and XML output and reports from SQL Server.- An easy-reading writing style that puts information into my brain quickly and relatively easily.- Solid scope.Many other sections I may take a little for granted given experience with databases, but are more than adequate and packed with pain-saving wisdom and useful tips.What the author knows he can't accomplish in one book is clearly spelled out. There are solid overviews of performance tuning, DTS, WMI, and Analysis Services, and advice to look elsewhere for more information. One exception is Database Administration, which is reviewed well, but does not suggest looking for other sources of information in addition to this book (likely because a programmer perhaps doesn't need to... but an administrator must.)There are few typos, plenty of examples (but no exam-type questions), and good chapter introductions and summaries. 32 chapters and 5 Appendixes are all VERY well organized, from easier to more difficult (generally). One thing I like is that if I get bored or stuck on one item, there's "always" another chapter I'll enjoy.This is the best technical book I've read so far and I've no intention to put it down until its read 3 times over. Great value!! 70-229 is within reach.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL Tuning & CBO Internals
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Kimberly Floss
Rating: 1/5
Title: Oracle SQL Tuning & CBO Internals
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Kimberly Floss
Rating: 1/5
If this book had been sent to market as "'Intro to SQL Tuning with Reprints of Previously Published Material by Various Gurus and Breezy Transition Paragraphs by Kimberly,' editor K. Floss available in Large Print Edition Only" I wouldn't feel so ripped off. In that case, my only complaints would have to do with various inaccuracies. Basically, if you know enough about Oracle to be interested in CBO internals, you probably know everything in this silly little book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 4/5
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 4/5
For the price you gain a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time. 21 days or less it's easy to read thru a chapter or 3 and only spend an hour doing it. I wouldn't turn anyone away from this book, but a Novice or low level user should be aware that they may need to re-read a chapter more then once.it's a good book. covers a lot of information in a basic fashion with simple examples.Great if you understand some programming or basic Database concepts and you just want to get up to speed on some more advanced topics. Could also be good for novice users looking to start learning about SQL, I just think some of the examples and explanations might be a little hard for someone who's never used databases before. But, if they read each chapter twice if they feel like they are missing something, I think they will be fine and be happy with this book.
