IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
T-sql coding is not easy. It's not easy to get right. I teach classes and see people get it wrong almost everyday. This book is the first I've seen to show how to write code that is both fast and robust, that is readable as well as tunable. You will not find a better selection of top-notch code and expert commentary on T-sql than what you find in this book. I definitely recommend it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
This book is useful if you are unexperienced with PHP and need to learn but not for go beyond. I found some sintax mistakes in the examples and the order of every chapter is not so logical, but anyway I think this is a book with good concepts for any PHP Programmer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Beginners: Don't be scared off by the 'Professional' in the title! This is the best book available because it actually teaches SQL programming in a few chapters (and that's all it SHOULD take).Intermediates: This book is your best bet to develop for SQL Server. Go beyond the basics and learn what you've been missing. (IMPORTANT: not much about administration is covered, but Robert makes it very clear that that is not his goal.)Professionals: Once you get past Chapter 8 (Normalization), you'll be in the territory you got the book for: SPROCs, extended stored procedures, security, data transformation, English Query... the list goes on.The great thing about all of this is that the book reads like a textbook (for beginners) but has great referential information (for professionals). I have come across very few, if any books that are able to appeal to this broad of an audience.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
i bought this book knowing nothing about php and it took me from ground 0 to writing pretty complex apps using php and mysql - i know it will serve as a great reference book for years to come. thanks!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I wish I could give this book 10 stars because I would. It is by far the best SQL Server book I have seen. I have something like two dozen SQL Server books - Inside SQL Server, Transact-SQL Programming, many others - and this is the most useful I have found.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
I thought this was a great book. I'm an intermittant PHP programmer, and this book helped solidify my foundation, and taught me how to apply PHP in ways I'd never thought of. Its reference section actually has useful examples, and all the explanations in the book are laser-focused and dead on. The author clearly knows his stuff - not just how to use PHP, but has a deep understanding of the subject. I strongly recommend this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
I have been out from the html league for quite some time and I needed to catch up with the new kids on the block. PHP, I didn't know a thing about it or how to implement with html. A friend of mine, as a hobby he started to use php and he told me it was easy to use. I wasn't sure to how to use it until I bought this excellent book. It explains it like if you were on class. Easy examples that every programmer should do as practice and change a few things to get the full experience. Every exercise will be a prerequisite to do the next one. I have fun and learn. As an extra, you can learn mySQL and essential tool to put php together.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sharon Bjeletich, Greg Mable
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sharon Bjeletich, Greg Mable
Rating: 5/5
In my position, I am tasked with researching potential problems and one of these was the anticipated conversion to SQL 7.0. This book provided the necessary information to research the areas of concern and assuage issues related to them.I have experience with SQL 6.5 but not to the level I would like. This book has helped me learn more about 7.0 than I knew of 6.5.
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 purchased this book to learn how to write some really basic stored procedures, I started to read this book and applied the examples to some SQL tasks at my place of employment, the examples are real world friendly, and describe in detail what they do in SQL and you learn as you go. The authors writing style is concise, informative, and animated. I would recommend this SQL book for anyone who needs to apply a reference for real world SQL programming. A MUST HAVE FOR ALL SQL DEVELOPERS !!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
Title: Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
One of the few puzzle books for IRM types. Joe's book is based on his columns in the now defunct Database Programming and Design magazine. Overall this is an excellent book if you work with SQL on a daily basis. I'd give it a 5 rating, but it's overdue for an update due to the fact that many, including Joe himself, have developed even better answers for the puzzles.This is not an introductory text -- you should have not only a knowlege of SQL but some real world experience developing and deploying SQL based applications.To get the most out of this book, make sure you make an attempt to solve the puzzles before reading the 'answers'.
