IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
While this book maybe less than what a seasoned DBA maybe looking for it is non the less an excellent book. The author wrote the book using Beta 3 and I used it against RC-1 of SQL 7. There were some differences but not enough to interfere with the authors clear introduction to SQL 7.I believe you will find SQL Server 7 for Dummies to be a superb introduction to SQL 7 and as only one of two books on the subject in print at the time of this review it is the least expensive and most informative.Regards
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
Usually WROX print high levelled books. But this one is similar to a copy of the documentation you can find on some on line guide while using SQL Server. - first : you never know if the SQL shown is for SQL Server, Access or a normative one (SQL 2 or SQL 3)... - second : basic and well know "usages" are explained with many details, but hard thing are passed quickly ! - third : some informations are so specific to Microsoft SQL implementation that they do not need to be in the chapter title nor to be so detailled !And when I think they have been three to "commit" this work, I don't understand the public they are looking for !Please Mister AMAZON, why did there is no level ZERO to attribute a star notation ???
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 1/5
This is an absolutely fabulous book for beginning PHP. If only they made books like this for every scripting language. The examples are simple, easy to understand and hell, they work! PHP is a pretty complex language but this book dives right into the core of what you need to know about CGI with PHP. Even if it doesn't explain the code in depth enough it at least allows the user to have a basic grasp of what the language is doing with line-by-line explainations. The section on mySQL is very complete and should allow the reader to take off running with mySQL, plus when you are done with the exercise, you have a web interface for mySQL that you can use indefinately. Any experienced perl programmer will be able to see the advantages of PHP just by thumbing the pages (me for example).The only reason I give it four stars is because of the annoying blue text - please tell me this was a mistake. The HUGE TEXT was a turn off as well, reads like a child's book. I'll take it though and I recomend it to all BEGINNERS in PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 4/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 4/5
Compared to the other T-SQL books on the market, this book makes a good reference for programmers concerned with writing compliant SQL for Microsoft and Sybase databases. Everytime I go to use this book, another developer seems to be borrowing it. That statement alone proves to me that this book is worthy of being in any technical library. Although the book is bit outdated (only goes up to Sybase 11.5), it does have a number of good examples. The book does a nice job of telling you what T-SQL statements apply to MS-SQL and Sybase-SQL. My only critique: Mr. Kline should have expanded the section on error handling.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 3/5
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 3/5
The book is well structured with rich knowledge. The author focuses on asp coding as well as e-commerce concepts. In order to finish up this book, you must be able to handle Microsoft SQL server (basic operation) and know how in asp scripting.How much is this book? worth thousands dollars. The included source code is a full function enterprise online store, better than most of commercial packages.Enjoy this super asp book. Big thank you to Noel, really appreciate your great works.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 2/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 2/5
While this book maybe less than what a seasoned DBA maybe looking for it is non the less an excellent book. The author wrote the book using Beta 3 and I used it against RC-1 of SQL 7. There were some differences but not enough to interfere with the authors clear introduction to SQL 7.I believe you will find SQL Server 7 for Dummies to be a superb introduction to SQL 7 and as only one of two books on the subject in print at the time of this review it is the least expensive and most informative.Regards
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 3/5
I bought this book just have a reference copy regarding PL/SQL. As oracle has come up with new version 8i and it's quite popular in the market so I wanted to have a book which can cover my PL/SQL concept and keep me up regarding latest update in 8i.
This book is a disappointment, may be a bad choice for me. It actually validate it title quite closely. It is absolutly an advance book not for beginner or middle level guys. If you are looking for a book which can give you all the concepts and advance then probably this is not the book for you.
This book really starts in advance mode. Even for the middle level guy like me I really feel to buy oracle 8 book instead of a Advance book like this.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Leon Atkinson, Zeev Suraski
Rating: 4/5
Title: Core PHP Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Leon Atkinson, Zeev Suraski
Rating: 4/5
In what seems like a dazzingly short time, PHP has grown from a simple little language that dynamically generates web pages to a fully fledged object oriented language. Now available in its fifth major revision, PHP code looks so much like C, with the added benefit of being OO. PHP is still very specialised, confined to essentially web server applications. While it is true that PHP is no longer strictly confined to this, the de facto reality is that the vast majority of applications, and the concomitant employment prospects, are in the context of web servers.Clearly, if you are a web programmer, knowing PHP is a big plus. A hardcore way of doing this is to use the online documentation scattered throughout the web, and learn by downloading and analysing code examples. PHP veterans, including maybe the authors, probably did this. Nothing better at the time. While it works for some, this approach is awkward to many, and is quite ad hoc. The danger is in learning quick kludges as opposed to methodically designing and coding, with a full appreciation of the language's extent. Luckily, as PHP has matured, you can turn to this book for a logical pedagogy.The treatment is exhaustive and shows starkly how far PHP has come. For example, you can use all the major encryption algorithms (Rijndael, Serpent, DES...) as extensively and easily as though you were coding in C. On another tack, the image analysis routines now handle all the important image formats (GIF, JPEG, TIFF...). The book displays the breadth of such computing topics now available, and the wealth of library routines in each topic describes the depth of the treatment.Are you familiar with Fortran and the IMSL mathematical package so often associated with it? Or with C++ and its standard template library? Or C and the Numerical Recipes routines? If so, this book lets you appreciate that intellectually, PHP now ranks with those luminaries.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Programming Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Dave Martin, John Papa, Marc Israel
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Programming Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Dave Martin, John Papa, Marc Israel
Rating: 5/5
Having written an entire data warehousing system in db_lib I thought I'd like to call attention to this book's very good introduction to db_lib. The sample application builds a bulk loader that requires NO, I repeat, NO disk storage. This is possible because Sybase put in a special sub-set of db_lib that implements a bulk-load API, and Microsoft got that in the bargain too. Using these techniques I have been loading 91 million rows to 38 tables in 5 hours on a old Compaq Proliant 4000. The total memory requirement for my loader, which is MetaData driven and so is doing a ton of other stuff too, is 4MB. It occured to me that somebody out there might really find this chapter a god-sent so I decided to add this footnote to my previous review. If you're doing SQL programming and you don't have this book you're working WAY too hard. Good luck!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled
Publisher: Curlingstone
Authors: Kevin Williams, Bryant Likes, Andrew Novick, Daryl Barnes, Paul Morris, Simon Sabin, Steve Mohr, Andrew Polshaw, Jeni Tennison
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled
Publisher: Curlingstone
Authors: Kevin Williams, Bryant Likes, Andrew Novick, Daryl Barnes, Paul Morris, Simon Sabin, Steve Mohr, Andrew Polshaw, Jeni Tennison
Rating: 5/5
Even though this book is one of the first attempts of Curlingstone press, the book is by far one of the best covering how to use XML in SQL Server. Most other books are copy cats of MSDN online refrence but this book stands out by covering SQL XML 3.0 in great detail and explains each and every topic with very good practical examples.I highly recommend for all the developers who want to get the data from SQL Server 2000 in XML format. The book also covers in great detail about programmatic access of SQLXML in VB6 and .NET.
If you are planning an integration with Biz Talk server and SQL server or if you are planning to expose your Stored procedures through Web services, I think this is the only book which covers those topics through case studies.I strongly recommend this book to all SQL Server 2000 Developers and DBA's.
