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: Professional PHP4 XML
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Luis Argerich, Chris Lea, Ken Egervari, Matt Anton, Chris Hubbard, James Fuller, Charlie Killian
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP4 XML
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Luis Argerich, Chris Lea, Ken Egervari, Matt Anton, Chris Hubbard, James Fuller, Charlie Killian
Rating: 5/5
I have a friend is one of the main co-authors of this book, and let me tell you something else none of these reviews on here can tell you. Maybe to your surprise, authors do a lot of hard work and gain very little financially for their efforts. Firstly, they need to be excellent writers and must be on an expert on the material they are writing about itself. It's something that many people have a hard time focusing on one of these abilities, nevermind being able to do both. Mix in the sound project management and business advice where it applies, and you have a very rich and meaningful book that is more than just the code.My friend honestly put 2 weeks of solid 12 hours a day into each chapter he committed to this great book (which was 3) as well as another month and a half on his upcoming book as well. This man was determined to write the best book possible, explaining not just the hows, but the whys and everything else in between. After an exhausted effort, he delivered an amazingly useful and creative book - all of the reviews here are telling you the truth. A book that helped me understand not only XML or PHP a bit better, but helped me look at programming in a different way (as he commits himself to doing every day). By reading his work and seeing his endless commitment, he's a man that I'm proud to call my friend, and if you read his work too, you'd realize it's true.I hope you can support my friend in his great effort to bring you the quality chapters that he contributed. After learning that he simply broke even from writing the book in the first place, we - the fellow PHP programmers of the world - should show our support and encourage him so we can read more of his (as well the other authors) great work.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 1/5
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 1/5
For a start-from-scratch introduction to SQL, this book is paced OK and is pretty approachable. I woudn't recommend it to anyone past the low novice level, though. Many subjects are dealt with far too lightly and often very uneven. "DISTINCT" is mentioned, for instance, in the Common Error section and in one other note area, but I didn't find an actual definition anywhere. This might be due to the index, which seemed half-hearted at best. This complicates learning, in that it's dificult to cross-refference and build on the lessons. As for using the book once the lessons have been run through, forget it. This book is pretty much worthless as a refference. Since this is a teaching book, I guess I shouldn't harp too much on it's value for ongoing refference. However, I doubt anyone buys a book with the intention of throwing it away after one read-through. There are better options out there.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 4/5
This book takes you through each sql command in both the Oracle and Access environment. It is an easy read and starts with the most elementary commands and moves to more advanced commands. The only draw back to this book is that John Patrick does not always give complete and detailed explanations for what is happened. The exercises at the end of the chapters are excellent but you do not have the output for all of them. So you have to hope that you have the correct statements. This book appears to have few errors which is a plus. As I have proceeded through this book, my confidence has increased. Would highly recommend this book.
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
This is a book not only for MS SQL Server. Most of the concepts and explaination are stand for any RDBMS. Almost no single word in this book is wasted except some Microsoft tradition: " whatever MS SQL Server can not do, it is a feature (i.e. page lock v.s. record lock)".
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
I think it is an EXCELLENT book about SQLServer 2000. There're a lot of incredible skills in it. It's for SQL-DBA and you'll got tired of this book if you are beginner. The skills in this book would save not only your days but also your money, weekend, the time with your family -- as the author said. The book has only 369 pages. You should be spend more than 90mins for every character -- every details, and it will be worthwhile and meaningfulI take it as my pillow
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 Paperback
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 1/5
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 1/5
Since reading (and returning) this book, I discovered a miracle product that makes this book redundant -- there's no reason to spend a day or more installing PHP and MySQL when you can buy software that does it automatically in less than 10 minutes. There's a company called Abriasoft (.com for their website) that makes a CD that will install MySQL, PHP, Apache, and other such programs on your computer within 5 minutes. Awesome! It will install in either Windows or Linux. I'm a beginner in PHP, and could no more install these programs myself than fly, but it was a cinch with Abriasoft. I know I probably sound like an ad, but I have no connection with ABriasoft except for eternal gratitude!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 2/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 2/5
If you have never used Microsoft SQL 2000 and would like an introduction to see if you want to get into MS-SQL Programming then this is the book for you. On the other hand if you already know that you want to learn MS-SQL Programming or have done some SQL programming don't waste your money, get Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming by Robin Dewson ISBN: 1861005237 !Each lesson of this book walks you through step by step performing basic SQL programming techniques. Filled with screen shots to go with just about every step it is a great way to find out something about Microsoft SQL 2000. Once you have finished with the lessons then you will have a better feel for if you want to go further into SQL Programming (It took me a weekend to finish!). If/When you are ready to learn the programming aspect pick up a copy of the book recomended above, you will not be disapointed.Having some experience already with SQL 7.0 from a pure admin support stance I found very little in this book useful for my skill level (I knew what most of the GUI interfaces looked like already). The repetition got old when the writer told you everytime how to go into Design Table View 1 to 5 times for 12+ Chapters strait!
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
My first problem with this book is that it misleads you into believing its a 7.0 book when in fact it's not even specifically an MS SQL book -- it also covers Sybase. None of the example code is for version 7.0 of MS SQL. Some of it won't even work on 7.0. My second problem is that many of the examples fail to tell you whether they're for Microsoft or Sybase. You end up trying code on Microsoft that will never work because it uses Sybase-specific syntax. My last problem is that the book is disjointed. I don't know if its the multiple authors or what, but the topics are all over the place. One minute they're at 30,000 feet, the next minute they're strafing the football field. One minute they're on stuff that's really only meaningful to a DBA, the next minute they're trying to be coder-specific.
