IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
I found that reading and practicing with this guide is an excellent preparation for exam 1Z0-101. The questions in the practice exams in the back of the book are very similar to those questions on the exam except that they are a little bit more difficult than those on the exam.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 4/5
This is THE book to have on SQL Server 2000. Robert Vieira unquestionably knows his stuff and covers every aspect of SQL Server completely and thoroughly.
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: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
As someone new to SQL Server (my company is mainly Oracle), I found this book to be a handy tool. The authors included refreshingly practical explanations and examples for "real-world" enterprise development. Included were extensive details on interfaces, including: OLE DB and ADO; ODBC API (call-level interface); RDO; and VB DAO and ODBCDirect. I found helpful explanations for integrating SQL Server 7 databases with the Web and developing Active Server Pages, which is what I bouhgt the book for.Of course, this being a book on SQL Server, it is very Microsoft-centric, with examples pointing toward VB and Visual C++, but I expected this.All in all an excellent resource.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent book presenting an overview of the administration aspects of SQL Server 7.0. I myself am a developer and have just set up SBS 4.5 at home and am learning the intracasies of managing SQL Server 7.0 along with developing n tier Clinet/Server applications. This book is interesting to read (which I might add is rare among technical books) and holds my attention. I only wish more books were written this clear and concise. There are so many books out there which are rip off's and shouldn't even be allowed to be on the market. Hats off to the authors and the publishers for this book!!
Product: Book
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Development From Scratch
Publisher:
Authors: Rob Hawthorne
Rating: 1/5
this was a book about writing web applications using the very bare aspects of sql server 2000. and was very bad at that!unfortunately rob is still using Active Server Pages (ASP) for all his work, with hints of using sql code inside your asp, so its very behind the times. not to mention very bad practice!what about using some more sql server 2000 xml features there with IIS integration and the xsl isapi filter...people arnt going to get very excited about sql server 2000 off this book! you will get much better reads over at msdn.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Database Design, Study Guide (Exam 70-29)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Database Design, Study Guide (Exam 70-29)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Rating: 2/5
This book is a waste of paper! It is full of errors. The examples are basic and when they are not full of errors do not illustrate or reinforce the points in the book. It does not follow a logical flow when discussing the concepts. I must agree that this one was rushed to press! It did nothing to prepare me for the exam! Nor did it give me any new information on the product. Save your $$$ and put it toward your exam (since you'll likely take it twice!)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
If you are looking for a book on the Google API and how to do better searching on Google, this book is outstanding. If you are looking for a book to give you lots of tips on improving your Google search engine ranking, this isn't the right book.I do a LOT of research on the Internet and this book has been extremely useful in narrowing my searches so that I sift through "less junk". The countless hours this book has saved me has paid for it many times over.I haven't done any Google API programming, so I don't have any opinion on that part of the book (which is the majority of the book).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
Publisher: Apress
Authors: W. Jason Gilmore
Rating: 5/5
Title: A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
Publisher: Apress
Authors: W. Jason Gilmore
Rating: 5/5
This is a great book. I am not a professional programmer but have some experience with Perl and needed to use PHP. Gilmore's book not only got me going successfully with PHP, but has also taught me some essential things about programming, databases and how a web site works. The presentation is elegantly simple and an enormous amount of information and experience is transmitted in a small number of very astutely chosen examples of immediate usefulness. Congratulations.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 3/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Mark Chaffin, Brian Knight, Todd Robinson
Rating: 3/5
This book is very much hands-on. Every component in SQL Server DTS is described step by step with examples. It also contains a chapter for helping out with error-handling, which in SQL-server can sometimes be be tricky since there's not much help in the tool itself.I sometime feel that I loose myself in some of the various examples when trying to learn the tool - maybe a book in color with arrows and color coding could have helped the confused beginner. Otherwise for a programmer used to her profession it contains a great deal of advice and guidance of how to use the tool properly.
