IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
I bought this book based on the reviews in amazon.com and I am fully justified with the money I spent. I recommend this
book for professionals as well as those uninitiated to PHP. I particularly liked the I18n coverage and the case study on PHP weather--it helped a long way in complementing my post graduate research report.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 1/5
The book skims over Analysis Services. Case in point: Nowhere in the book does it cover the unary operators and/or how to apply them to create custom rollups. Actually the term "custom rollup" is not even mentioned in the book (though it is a key term for Analysis Services).Knowing what I know now, I wish I'd saved my money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 3/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew
Rating: 3/5
This would be a better library book to flip through. The book *tries* to teach you how to be a sql query writer; a sql administrator; a programmer with interfaces in sql. As one might expect, this is too broad a scope for any book, much less for one that is supposed to teach you everything in 24 hours! The book does a good job of walking you step by step through the lessons, and each is very easy to understand. After you've got the basics of query structure and language though, there is not enough reference material to help you get to intermediate queries. I'd keep looking or spend an hour with it in the library.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
With previous experience (v7.0) I found this book an excellent guide to the added functionality of v2000.It's concisely, cleanly written in a straightforward no-nonsense style. The lay out is logical and well planned with the book building nicely as you move through it. I have also found it deep enough to fill some gaps and clarify areas that I previously felt I knew very well.The main advantage of the book to my mind though is that it does exactly what it says on the cover - it provides pratical examples of all the concepts discussed (I have found that previous books have often left me feeling "OK, but lets see it in action!!!" including Soukup & Delaney's excellent "Inside SQL Server 7".All round an excellent book, highly recommended at a very reasonable price.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Performance Tuning
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Performance Tuning
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer
Rating: 5/5
Over the years I've developed a number of systems that utilized relational databases. When I developed or used a complex and/or large database, more often than not I found that database performance was the main issue, especially in real-time or near real-time applications. I have been interested in the databases *only* to the point of satisfying my projects' needs and considered them subordinate to the rest of the systems. I did realize the complexity of RDBMSs implementations, but never cared to learn more than I necessary to solve an immediate problem at hand. Maybe this is why I've never really enjoyed reading about the databases: I believed that the databases and SQL were quite boring comparing to all the elegance and slickness of C++, Java, CORBA, and other object-oriented technologies.
"SQL Performance Tuning" changed my perception of that; I was hooked just after just a few sentences. The language, the obvious depth of the authors' knowledge, the wide and careful coverage of all related issues, including the very fundamentals of the relational databases are presented as needed; and mostly, the enjoyably right balance between the theory and practice makes this book an outstanding read. I have not read most of it yet, but I am very excited about what I will find in the rest of it, even if it is something that I think I know well.
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
The query performance chapter in this book is worth the price of the whole book. I have never seen such a collection of useful, practical Sql Server info and advise in one place. If you build or manage Sql Server for a living you owe it to yourself to read and practise this excellent book.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
This book is the least informative reference book I have ever purchased. The book will not help you pass the MCDBA exams (70-228 and 70-229), nor is it a good reference book for your job. First of all, there are many aspects of T*SQL that are missing. For example, how can one write a book about the Select statement without such basic topics as "Having" and "Group By"? Secondly, the information is frequently wrong. Not misinterpreted, but plainly wrong (i.e., SQL*Server will reject your syntax). Finally, the questions in the "sample" tests have NO relationship to the actual exams. I cannot think of a book that has provided less true information and more misinformation than this one. If I could rate this book with negative stars, I would do so.
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
First, I was recommended this book by a friend at Microsoft. Usually, when someone at Microsoft recommends a non-Microsoft Press book on one of there products I listen, especially when that someone is also a friend. Second, let me say that this book blew me away. The cover of Transact-SQL internals is the best I've ever seen. I'm a certified old timer in the world of SQL Server, but this book told me things I didn't know. The undocumented T-SQL chapter alone is loaded with stuff I didn't know and will certainly use. Also, the Statistics chapter and the one on Sets and so forth is rife with solutions to hard problems that I've not seen before. Basically, I can recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the language inside out -- especially to those who think they already do.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php 4 Bible (Bible (Wiley))
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Tim Converse, Joyce Park
Rating: 3/5
Title: Php 4 Bible (Bible (Wiley))
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Tim Converse, Joyce Park
Rating: 3/5
I am an admirer of the "Bible" series of books, especially the Javascript Bible by Danny Goodman. This book is not of the same caliber. It covers lots of materal, but not in the depth seen in other Bible series books. It also lacks the excellent organization that I see in other Bible series books. That this comes without a CD of example code or a searchable PDF of the text is another dissapointment.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Oracle8i Certified Professional SQL & PL/SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Jason S. Couchman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle8i Certified Professional SQL & PL/SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Jason S. Couchman
Rating: 5/5
Respecting Oracle Press I bought this book... :( NEVER AGAIN! Why don't they clearly write on the outside that this is a word-for-word copy of the DBA 8i Certification Guide? Makes you realize the pitfalls of online buying!!!
