IT programming books related reviews
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
This book is worth it's weight in gold! It will be the SQL reference you pull out when needed. This is great for beginners to learn, and experts to remember. You can't find anything better for the price!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
I don't understand why so many of the other reviewers focused on the SQL 7 and Style issues when reviewing this book. After having surveyed the market place, I think I can say that there is no better book on the subject in print anywhere. If you were captive in a vault with a workstation connected to a SQL Server and had to program your way out, this would be the book you would want to have with you.If you know what is in this book, you are a heavy hitter when it comes to SQL Server(MS or Sybase). There are some nuances of the changes brought by MS version 7 that are uncovered, but you will be able to deal with them by reading the "What's New" section, and what's more you will be able to understand them.Secondly, those who complain about the style of writing in this book are nuts. What are they looking for? Love interest? The movie rights? This book is both a text, i.e. it teaches how to use the language, and a reference that you will go back to time and again to refresh your memory on point of grammar. To demonstrate how useful I think this book is, I have just spent 30 minutes writing and attaching 3M index tabs to my copy, the better to retrieve information with faster.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Weekend Crash Course
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel
Rating: 2/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Weekend Crash Course
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel
Rating: 2/5
The book offers to show you all sorts of querys, stored procedures, rules, and in general the T-SQL language. However, No one ever proof read the book to see if the formulas worked. I've spent so much time "De-bugging the examples" I tossed the book out. Makes you wonder what the other reviewers were looking at. What a waste!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rob Tiffany
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rob Tiffany
Rating: 5/5
This book is excellent. I would recommend it to anyone doing PDA development.
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
I've been programming professionally for 20 years, and until now never really had any need for a database. Over the years I've created many simple to moderately complex Access databases for my own use, but never for commercial or industrial use.
I bought this book to "flesh out" my understanding of the building blocks of SQL. To that end, this book has done an outstanding job. The chapters build upon each other in a logically sequential manner, and the information presented is both necessary and sufficient to illustrate the topic effectively.
This is not an advanced book, but it provides a solid understanding of SQL. I'm giving it 4-stars because I now write Oracle and SQL Server databases for commercial and industrial use, and I find myself still using it as a primary reference.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
I actually bought "Professional PHP Programming" out of Wrox Publishing as my very first PHP book to help me learn it. I had SO many problems grasping many of the areas that I actually walked away from learning PHP for a month. It's a good book, but there is just too much detail information in there for the newbie. Then I went out and bought PHP Fast & Easy. It made it so easy that I couldn't put the book down! This is easily the most useful web development book I ever bought. You'd have to be brain dead to have any trouble learning PHP with this book sitting in front of you.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 2/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 2/5
For all that the book is 500+ pages, it's not a very deep book. For example, the chapter that covers performance and debugging is especially light. It's better than the online documentation for PHP, but only marginally. Some features of PHP are covered lightly, if at all. The index is not very good.This really should have been a 275 page book. There just isn't enough material here to merit the amount of dead trees it took to print it...
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Certification Boxed Set
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Syngress Media Inc
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Certification Boxed Set
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Syngress Media Inc
Rating: 2/5
I'm more than half way through the SQL Server Administration practice questions and I've found too many incorrect answers to recommend this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
This is the best introduction I've seen to PL/SQL programming. The book takes its "101" moniker seriously - it doesn't assume anything, but explains fully everything you need to know to learn how to program in PL/SQL. Since PL/SQL relies on a fundamental knowledge of SQL, the book invests a good deal of time covering the database concepts, SQL concepts, and SQL commands necessary to write good PL/SQL code. Bravo! That's why this deserves to have "101" in its title. Those who already have some SQL knowledge would do well to read over these SQL chapters anyway - the book really pulls things together, filling in the gaps that often come with self-teaching. It also has great examples for some of the more obscure features of SQL and PL/SQL.Perhaps the author can be persuaded to do a "PL/SQL 201" book - I would buy it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
The only good use for this book is as bird cage liner. I can't say enough about how wretchedly bad it is. It's written so badly that most people get little if anything out of it. It definitely should not have been published.
