IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
This books demonstrates clearly how to use SQL Reporting Services. There are numerous example with detailed steps on how to effectively use this excellent product to create professional reports.
I recommend this as a pocket manual for anybody wishing to learn how to do professional reports quickly!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 3/5
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 3/5
If you want to learn how to build a large scale php web app from start to finish this is the best book you can buy. Nearly every question i had was clearly explained, from user input validation to file uploads, from database queries to session management, its all here. Some books show you lots of small toy projects, this one builds a (nearly) industrial strength e-commerce site. The lessons are fairly universal, too - i used what i learned form this book to build a full scale dating web site.The only beef i have with this book is that the code is entirely procedural, as opposed to object-oriented. This may not be a problem for most people, but i really feel that, after a site reaches a certain level of complexity, objects really make the code a lot easier to manage. There are also a truly heroic number of typos, so be sure to read the errata on the books web site. That i can still give this book 5 stars is just another testament to its excellence.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Learn MS SQL 7.0 Care and Maintenance
Publisher: Wordware
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus
Rating: 2/5
Title: Learn MS SQL 7.0 Care and Maintenance
Publisher: Wordware
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus
Rating: 2/5
I bought this book with high expectations from the author. I have gone through all his books and found them great and handy. This, however, departs a little from there. Though I would definitely recommend this book for one who is about to explore SQL Server. There are a few errors, as well as some syntax given refers back to the earlier version, I noticed.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 1/5
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 1/5
The formatting of the book is lousy. There are many errors in the examples given. The book is written in parts as if you know nothing about database theory or SQL and other parts take an assumption that you are an expert and only have the book for a quick reference. There is too much cross references in the book to be a useful.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Michael K. Glass, Yann Le Scouarnec, Elizabeth Naramore, Gary Mailer, Jeremy Stolz, Jason Gerner
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Michael K. Glass, Yann Le Scouarnec, Elizabeth Naramore, Gary Mailer, Jeremy Stolz, Jason Gerner
Rating: 4/5
I have about every book related to PHP, Apache, and MySQL out there--from beginning to advanced. This book has several things in it that are excellent, even to the professional.I have read some of the recent responses. I would hope these guys at least know what PHP is before buying a book. This is EXCELLENT for beginners. And quite honestly, what books don't have a few typos?The book requires you to have a working knowledge of these items.I would recommend this book to those that want to increase their knowledge beyond "Hello world".
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Reporting Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Hitachi Consulting, Stacia Misner
Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Reporting Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Hitachi Consulting, Stacia Misner
Rating: 3/5
I looked through this book at a bookstore recently (no insult to Amazon, but I really like have my hands on a book to review it properly). The text is large, and so even though the book is big, one page does not contain much info. I knew I was going to be disappointed when I opened the book halfway and there was an introduction to using paramaterized queries. I needed a book that assumed that I already knew basic SQL, .NET progrmming, and SQL Server 2000, and was already familiar with the basic Microsoft products.
This was not quite it. It seems to be written for people with less hands-on experience developing reports, likely written for people who want to decide whether to use Reporting Services, and at a high-level, what RS is capable of. I needed something that could give me a quick understanding of the essentials, and then help me to start cranking out real solution.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
To discover the secret of SQL, this is the book you need, Well written, easy to follow and understand. The author didn't waste his time writing things that you don't need. If you want to learn SQL programming, this book is not for you, however you still need it as a reference book to write your sql code, it covers almost everything you need for querries. To the author, BEN you've done a great job and keep up the good work.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
This is a very fine book, and should be read cover-to-cover. It is not a reference book or a beginner's book but I think anyone can gain from reading it.
I would like to comment on some of the other reviews which "gush" with what reads like professionally-prepared reviews. I am very suspicious of such reviews and you should be too!
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
I am presently reading your book on Professional SQL Server 2000 programming by Robert Vieira. It is the best book on SQL Server 2000. I have always shown indifference to SQL and those batabase stuffs but, I decided to read the book for 2 reasons:I have read other Wrox publications such as "Beginning Visual C++ 6", "Beginning Java2", "Professional J2EE programming", and I found that they were a complete and a super references.Secondly, I was captivated by the glossy picture of the author on the backcover.Every time I see the backcover I get energized to stay on and on o...n. I am so confident I be will be a professional like Robert after I might have gone through the book. I am almost through with it and you can only imagine how pleased I am with my-selfI enjoy the book so much that I cant do without it. It's was a very wonderful Valentine's day I had with the book . Oh! I love the book for real, despite the fact that it costs soo much to get over it to my country, Nigeria.Rob, your book really robbed me of my time for other schedules, but rejoice, I won't call the police because I love it...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 1/5
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 1/5
Except for some missing hints (pg. 57-59) and some mixed up hint syntax, I found the book accurate and very enlightening. I've now used it on two from-scratch VLDB projects. Almost every page has something I was able to use to refine SQL statements & PL/SQL server-side code. For example, pg. 206, the section on MAX & MIN statements was the key to my latest project being able to process 20X the number of records we currently do. The section on learning to read tkprof output was helpful. The bibliography was also great (but is probably outdated now). Worth every penny!
