IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
I would like to thank the people at Glasshaus. Not just for a well written and very helpful book, but for all the support they provided when I messed up my source code and couldn't figure out where. They saved me countless hours of frustration and taught me a few things in the process. Thanks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Sql Guide to Oracle
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: R. Van Der Lans
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Sql Guide to Oracle
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: R. Van Der Lans
Rating: 4/5
I have found this book the only useful book on using SQLPlus. In fact, it was the ONLY book on SQLPlus that I have found anywhere. It has exactly what I need. However, the book only covers Oracle 6.x, which is a bit outdated. Are there any plans for new editions of the title?
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
I am no stranger to Microsoft and certifications. This book assumes that the reader knows the lingo of databases, and yet it fails utterly to prepare one for the certification exam. It does not give enough detail for a beginner, but would probably bore the advanced user of Microsoft SQL. I have the latest version of this book, and the errata posted on Sybex's website are already corrected in it. Nonetheless, after a year in circulation, most of the T-SQL statements printed in the exercises STILL have incorrect syntax. Imagine spending 2 hours to debug an excercise which should have taken 5 minutes! I used this book in conjunction with the Transcender test (which was previously a "guaranteed pass" combination for me). As always, I learned some from the book, more from the BOL, but the most about practical application from the Transcender test. Sybex has a lot of work to do to make this volume worth the price I paid.I'm buying the Microsoft SQL Self-Study Kit right now...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 4/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 4/5
I bought this book because I'm a professional web developer looking for more experience in the unix environment. I'm about half-way through it now and I find it to be easy to follow, concise, clean, and straight to the point. The author managed to keep it very direct and to the point without leaving out all the important details. I've had it for a week and I'm already programming dynamic pages and manipulating data in mysql databases. I'm very impressed w/ this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 1/5
My shortest skimming time till rejection award goes to this book.
The first boxed note lead to an instant no-buy decision.
The authors take the space in this short book to note
that set theory was invented by the Russian mathematician Georg Cantor.
1. The topic of this note does not belong in a quick reference for SQL.
2. Being born in St. Petersburg did not make Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor
any more Russian than being published by O'Reilly could make this book worth buying.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
As someone who already has alot of experience with the product, it's very nice indeed to have a book that covers the internals as well as this book does. I guess it's important to understand that this is not a book for newcomers to SQL Server, nor is it a "how-to" book. This book is useful when you want to know what happens to your database when you perform an INSERT on a table with a clustered key. It tells you how the TEXT fields are stored, which allows a DBA to make an intelligent decision about when and if to use such a field. I obviously could go on and on. As far as I can tell, this is the *only* book out there that will give you that kind of information.Since this isn't a sequel or trilogy, I was expecting that there would be some redundancy between the 7.0 and 2000 version of the book simply because that same redundancy exists in the real product!If you are already an experienced DBA and are looking for an understanding of the internals so as to make better tuning decisions, then by all means,get this book. If you're new to SQL Server and you stiil don't know the difference between WHERE and HAVING, then you may be disappointed in this book, because it's not going to teach you how to use the EM and QA.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
This is a very good book. It's not only the list of all of PHP command, but it also has some chapters called Case Study, where it explains about making shopping cart and bulletin baord with PHP and MySQL. But you have to know C and C++ before you read this book. I know C but I don't know C++ (the OOP). That's why I stop reading this book, and buy some OOP book. Maybe I'll continue to read it after I finished my OOP book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I have carried the first "Guru's Guide" with me in my backpack for over two years to numerous DBA assignments, and this one is right there with it. This is a great book - simply fantastic.
Aside from the great technical information, Ken included several chapters on his philosophy of the art of programming, opinions and viewpoints on .NET, XML, suitable environments in which to work, and great stories of life as a programmer/writer/thinker. Very thought provoking, Ken has become one of those that I look up to and have great admiration for. I was lucky enough to hear him speak at a local SQL Server group in Dallas last year - if you get a chance to see him, go. Mr Henderson, I promise not to send you too many emails going forward. Thanks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
Most people that work in SQL daily, don't need reminders of how to write join, correlate or update queries. But the other 10% of the work you do is where you run into trouble. You know you can do something, you just need to know the syntax. This little gem fills that bill nicely. Concise, clear and with a good index, SQL Pocket Guide gives you what you need. Complex functions are explained and it covers DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL with good depth. Indispensible.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Mastering Oracle SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu
Rating: 5/5
Title: Mastering Oracle SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu
Rating: 5/5
I own many Oracle books and this one definitely my favorite. This book covers topics on SQL other books cover but in the way this one does. Easy to read & understand. If you don't learn or understand sql from this book than you should remove Oracle if you installed on your machine. This book as mentioned on the cover page cover also have many examples on Oracle9i features. What I am doing writting this review.. Think about it .. book published on April 15, 2002 and have 3 reviews with 5 stars .. And you still need to read reviews to make up your mind about this book? If I were you will be reading and learning from this book and writting review just like this one..
