IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 5/5
Title: Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 5/5
With the help of this book, I created a basic intranet with many apps including a timecard, messaging app, calendar, contact book etc. only in 3 days!
Wow! Love it!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
The author uses very loose language. I don't know how a company like Microsoft can publish a book without editing for language. Lot of the sentences in the book begin with No, or Yes. Is that a way to write a professional book? William Vaughn brags too much about working at Microsoft. Ok so he works at Microsoft and he is a big shot blah blah blah... but who cares. When one pays for a book one expects to be taught on the subject and not hear about how great and big the author is. The book is filled with unnecessary nonsense and the author's stupid jokes which makes it bulky. On the other hand this is probably the only complete and dedicated refrence for information on accessing SQL server using Visual Basic. Most of the stuff is covered in this book. It has good examples which work unlike some other books. Given no real choice I would say a VB programmer accessing SQL server needs to have this book.
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
This book not only covers vast areas but also in a very simpler and easy to understand way. Either you need information on stored procedures, data transformation services, distributed queries or olap, you can find all these information in this book. The other good thing is I send an email to the author and got the reply back after couple of hours giving me the answer that I needed. The chapters are organized well enough and way of explaining is excellent. This is the book that all SQL developers should have.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
I studied in this book and passed the PL/SQL exam. Nearly everything you need to know is in this book. For only two questions out of 57 the answer was not in the book but for one of them the answer could be guessed. There is a chapter about Procedure Builder which is not in the test content checklist and I had no question about it. The practice questions are very good but there is a bug in the Quizzer found on the CD-ROM. Some questions are evaluated False, but the explanation says otherwise. When in doubt check the paper version which is always accurate.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 24seven
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Matt Bridges, Victor Isakov
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 24seven
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Matt Bridges, Victor Isakov
Rating: 5/5
This book is perfectly targeted for the SE group, which really surprised me because I'm not a big fan of Sybex Books. It can be `read' instead of `studied' (for example, on a plane or in a hotel room), and it is totally packed with information targeted directly at SEs (just look at the table of contents, and you'll see what I mean). I sat and read the first chapter and skimmed several others, and I found that each page had three or four great points that we all really need to know. It is clear to me that the authors must come from a consulting background. The knowledge in this book will help us all to: (a) understand SQL Server technology, (b) appear knowledgeable enough to instill confidence and promote a buying vision, (c) relate to and build rapport with SQL administrators, and (d) actually solve security-, configuration-, and performance-related issues. I'd like to see us buy a copy of this book for each SE.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Database 10g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Price, Jason Price, McGraw-Hill
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Database 10g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Price, Jason Price, McGraw-Hill
Rating: 5/5
This is the best book on SQL I've found. It has everything I needed: it teaches Oracle from the ground up. I didn't know SQL or PL/SQL before buying this book, and now I'm an expert! I even understood the advanced chapters. I give this book full marks and highly recommend it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Authors: Ken England
Rating: 5/5
Title: The SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Authors: Ken England
Rating: 5/5
Had response problems with current database setup and SQL statements. The chapters on Indexing and Optimizing really work. Ex. A simple query on two tables took 2.5 minutes. After applying some of the suggestions, the query took a little over 2 seconds...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Tomcat Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jon Eaves, Warner Godfrey, Rupert Jones
Rating: 1/5
Title: Apache Tomcat Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jon Eaves, Warner Godfrey, Rupert Jones
Rating: 1/5
This is definitely a good book to have... I recommend it! It is a true *complete* reference to Tomcat. Pretty much all you need to know about Tomcat you can find in this book. In a nutshell, a useful book that I am constantly referencing... it is pretty comprehensive...ceo
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 4/5
I don't understand some of the very negative reviews here. If you are new to SQL, then this book will be a good compagnon.
This book worked for me, it's gives you the fundamentals you need to get to the more advanced stuff. This book is to teach SQL, as a reference I use o'reillys SQL in a nutshell. And the comment on the price? Well, i think all programming books are getting more and more expensive...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Manuel Alberto Ricart
Rating: 3/5
Title: Apache Server Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Manuel Alberto Ricart
Rating: 3/5
I have this book only because of the shortage of Apache books out. The O'Reilly Apache book is much more concise, and you should have that one instead.But this book is pretty good to have on hand.
