IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
If you have a very narrow bookshelf or shallow pockets this is THE book to buy if you want to know more about PL/SQL. No matter how much you know already, this book will teach you more. I read the first edition from cover to cover and bought the second edition as a reference. I've been writing PL/SQL programs for more than 6 years and I still find this to be a valuable resource. Buy it today!
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
Hallo Oracle Users:This is a Book to keep at your workplace, right beside your computer (because you will need this book every day).I am over 11 Years with Client/Server. This book is a masterpiece. Every page will make you feel to read the next page, next chapter, on and on. 'Very limited', 'very accurate' and 'to the point' words are being used by the Author. Filled with contents, examples and notes. Book starts from the scratch level oracle users and step by step will take you to make you an expert in PL/SQL! Book covers from the basic level to the advanced level of Oracle PL/SQL anything you want to know while at Work as a oracle user.This is the very best book I ever read in my 11 years. This book deserves more than 5 stars. So, a perfect 10 stars are the right rate for this book."You do not need to buy another book, if you have ONLY this book" - Buy this word from me!I e-mailed this author, for oracle questions and I received my reply within 24 hours many times.Read this book...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
I had to learn SQL programming with Visual Basic 6 in about a month's time for a project. This book taught me everything I needed to know to deliver the application. Everytime I came across a stumbling block in my code or in SQL Server 2000 I found the answer in this book.This book will make you feel that you not only know how to make Visual Basic talk to SQL Server, it will make you feel you know more than the basics of SQL Server itself. Previous to reading this book I had no idea what a stored procedure was, or how a query works in SQL Server (I had worked extensively with Microsoft Access, and these skills were not necessarily transferable to SQL Server, though many of the concepts are similar). Now I know my way around SQL Server 2000. This book fulfilled a dual purpose.There are chapters on Database design, SQL Server installation, SQL Server security, Querying, Stored Procedures, the SQL language, IIS, and XML. Most of the book is taken up with what developers do everyday: the storage and manipulation of data. Over 300 pages of the book is dedicated to data in general, and how to get the most out of it using VB and SQL Server.If you need to create a VB6 (there is no discussion of VB.NET since the book predates it) database application using SQL Server, this is the book to start with. Its bulk pays off.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Great book. It's becoming my bible! Would recommend for the beginner and beyond.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL/400 by Example
Publisher: 29th Street Press
Authors: James Coolbaugh
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL/400 by Example
Publisher: 29th Street Press
Authors: James Coolbaugh
Rating: 1/5
I was looking to buy one good, comprehensive reference book re: SQL/400. This is not it. Too basic, with limited examples. Most functions are covered with one paragraph descriptions, with the whole book coming in a skinny, soft-covered, and under a half inch thick.
Product: Book Textbook Binding
Title: McSe: SQL Server 7 Database Design (The Training Guide Series)
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird, Chris Miller, Denis Darveau, Wayne Smith, Deanna Townsend
Rating: 4/5
Title: McSe: SQL Server 7 Database Design (The Training Guide Series)
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird, Chris Miller, Denis Darveau, Wayne Smith, Deanna Townsend
Rating: 4/5
This is a very good introductory book about SQL 7.0. The first chapter gives an excellent tutorial on relational database design. However, if you are planning on using this book as your sole means for passing the 70-029 test, think again. This is probably one of the three hardest tests Microsoft has, and this book won't cut it for passing the test. But, you really won't find any book that will help you pass the test by itself. I recommend using this book along with Transcender and BOL, and you should pass the test with no problem. I did.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat 5
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Vivek Chopra, Amit Bakore, Jon Eaves, Ben Galbraith, Sing Li, Chanoch Wiggers
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat 5
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Vivek Chopra, Amit Bakore, Jon Eaves, Ben Galbraith, Sing Li, Chanoch Wiggers
Rating: 5/5
Good book, no fluff..just stuff. Explains diff. between 4.0 and 5.0, gives latest cofig and development tech for 5.0
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Learning SQL: A Step-By-Step Guide Using Oracle
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Authors: Richard Earp, Sikha Bagui
Rating: 5/5
Title: Learning SQL: A Step-By-Step Guide Using Oracle
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Authors: Richard Earp, Sikha Bagui
Rating: 5/5
Despite the pile Oracle Certified Professional training material I received in class and the OCP certification books on SQL, there were aspects that I didn't fully understand until I read this excellent book. Part I contains the absolute basics, all of which are as applicable to IT professionals and business users. The first three chapters are standard fare in most books of this sort - getting started and the basic commands (SELECT, CREATE, etc.). It's in Chapters 3-9 where the clarity of the author's writing pays off. These chapters cover Cartesian products, joins and aliases; set operations; grouping and sub queries. These are not easy to grasp by beginners, but the book clearly explains each, and also goes into details such as the differences between a join and sub queries, sub query correlation and similar topics.Part II of the book covers more advanced tasks that are more suited to DBAs., with some material that will interest advanced business users and IT business systems analysts. For the DBA only are chapters on creating tables and using Oracle's SQL*Loader, triggers and PL/SQL (although some advanced business users employ PL/SQL it's rare, and the focus in the chapter on the subject is more in line with DBA uses). For all readers the chapter titled "Multiple Commands, START Files, and Reports" contains highly useful information, especially on how to do crude branching with the DECODE statement. The four appendices are also valuable references, and cover using Oracle in the UNIX environment, data dictionaries, the student database and associated tables, and improvements that Oracle made to 8i and 9i. If you're pursuing your OCP certification and find that the class materials are too terse, or that the books are more focused on getting you through the exam instead of teaching you how to use SQL, get this book. For business users, IT business systems analysts and others who need to write and execute queries against an Oracle database and need a solid introduction to SQL this book will meet their needs.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (It-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (It-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 4/5
Reading through the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, I was was immediately impressed by the breadth of the information in the volume, despite its small size. Of course, to call it a pocket consultant, you would have to have large pockets (perhaps Microsoft pocket 2.0 -- bad joke).The downside to this work, is that it is largely a rehash, in simpler terms, of the SQL books online. If you are a consultant, and own a laptop, you will probably get more mileage out of carrying it around. However, for those who have not gone completely e-book, this work occupies little space and has more than enough information for most admin tasks.I also recommend this book for admins moving up to SQL Server 2000 from either 7.0 or 6.5, as it gives a concise overview of the adminstration of the new server. While it does not cover every aspect of SQL Server 2000, it covers a large percentage of the material a heavy duty admin would need to know and near-100% (if not 100%) of the information for every day administration.I would give this one 5 stars, and probably should for the intended audience, but I feel the fact that a great majority of the material is just more concise books online information, that the major appeal is the fact that it is on paper.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server 2 Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 3/5
Title: Apache Server 2 Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 3/5
This title surpasses the O'Reilly offering, that's for sure. But then again that doesn't really say much. This book is fairly decent, but needs more polish before it's worth the raves expressed in other reviews. I find myself hitting apache.org a lot
