IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: A Guide to SQL, Seventh Edition
Publisher: Course Technology
Authors: Philip J. Pratt
Rating: 5/5
Title: A Guide to SQL, Seventh Edition
Publisher: Course Technology
Authors: Philip J. Pratt
Rating: 5/5
I used this book in college for intro to Oracle SQL. It is the best SQL book I have read for beginner. Yes, I have read many.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 1/5
This is not a very well-organized book. The examples are generally over-simplified. My biggest complaint, however, is with the cd rom - it includes "Source Code" from the examples in the book. The source code is merely all of the snippets of code in each chapter jammed into a few html pages. For example chapter 17, "Objects" has several "Example" pages which do not work because objects are illegally redefined several times within the same page. The author does spell it all out in the chapter, but the examples are simply not usable.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Cookbook
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Cookbook
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg
Rating: 4/5
If you are completely new to PHP, just forget about this book!
If you are looking for complete programming solutions, do so as well!
However, if you have some basic experience with PHP and MySQL this book is just great.
This book deserves the word "cookbook" as it contains over 600 pages of receipts (do not expect big explanations, but just snippets of code), which will help you to solve many problems. And the best of this book - in my personal opinion - is, that by reading it, you will find a lot of problems/solutions/ideas you have not thought about before.
Be warned: This book is not a real "help" for anybody who looks for the easy solution, but it will definitely help YOU to develop your site and develop yourself.
Just buy it - it's well worth the money and if this book won't pay out, none will!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jamie A. Reding, Steve Adrien DeLuca, Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia
Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jamie A. Reding, Steve Adrien DeLuca, Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia
Rating: 3/5
I have been tuning SQL Server databases for some time, and have not seen such a good reference short of the Inside SQL Server series originated by Ron Soukup.I strongly recomend this book for everyone creating or maintaining an enterprise database.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
I thought that this book was excellent. No pages and pages of SQL History and fluff that so many books contain. This is a great book to get up to speed on the basics of SQL RS in a very quick time frame, without having to wade the fluff. I can't wait for more titles to come out. At $10, you can't beat the price either.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Exam Notes: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Rick Sawtell, Lance Mortensen, Joseph L. Jorden
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCSE Exam Notes: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Rick Sawtell, Lance Mortensen, Joseph L. Jorden
Rating: 2/5
I was both disappointed and pleasantly suprised when I finished reading this book.As a study guide for exam 70-028, it doesn't go into enough detail all the time. In some parts it's very general, giving a high-level overview and in other parts it goes into great detail, telling you the exact menu selection (Tools - Replication - Configure ....) You need to have some experience with SQL Server to get the most out of this book. As I said, it will certainly supplement another more detailed study guide.However, I believe this books strength is that it WILL be used as a reference guide to working with SQL Server. The chapters are well laid out and topics are easy to locate. I use this book in the "real world" quite a bit.All in all, a very good book to have, but not the best source when you're studying for the exam
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
I made the mistake of buying this book without really looking it over. I saw it in a book store, then ordered it online in order to save money. I assumed that, since it was a hard back book, it was a serious, deep treatment of the many perils facing SQL Server DBAs. I was sadly mistaken.The author has a habit of glossing over important details -- the real meat of the discussion -- through glib comments and generally poor prose. The coverage really amounts to little more than a hand-held review of the graphical tools. There's no real DBA advice here. I came away believing the author was either a poor DBA or a poor writer (or, more likely, both).Glib comments and shallow coverage do not a useful technical book make. IMHO, I don't think this book was worthy of publication. I do not know the author and don't know if he has written anything else, so I don't know if this is an aberration or if all his writing is this bad. However, I don't see much value in this piece of work for its intended audience -- SS DBAs -- therefore, I don't see why it was published.If you are looking for an in-depth treatment of SS administration, keep looking.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Ken A. L. Coar
Rating: 3/5
Title: Apache Server for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Ken A. L. Coar
Rating: 3/5
Assumes, and rightly so, that the reader is a newbie ... but doesn't cover enough information. Also, far too much assumption about the user being a Windows user when most Apache distributions are run on *nix boxes.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 1/5
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 1/5
I thought it was just me, but after wasting three weeks of yelling and screaming I was pleased to see the reviews of this book on Amazon! This book will guide you nicely and then kicks you terribly. I need to learn code not correct it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 4/5
The book has excercises at the back of each chapter. There is also one sample database at the back that helps you understanding relations. No book in the world can give you five or six years of experience but if you want to have the experience you should have a strong base.
