IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Performance Troubleshooting: With Dictionary Internals, SQL & Tuning Scripts (Oracle In-Focus series)
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Robin Schumacher
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Performance Troubleshooting: With Dictionary Internals, SQL & Tuning Scripts (Oracle In-Focus series)
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Robin Schumacher
Rating: 5/5
I have always been an admirere of Robin Schumacher, and this book show his real talent for getting to the heart of any Oracle problem.This is a very practical book, with many novel code scripts, and a online code deport to save typing.His approach is very practical; and the scripts are ready-to-run and contain explainations so the output is understandable.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 4/5
If starting out or know the basics of Select whatever from table, this book is for you. It explains SQL in a way you can understand, using real databases you would use.I did learn the hard way from a MS-SQL 7 book with queries, and the information in here seems redundant to what I already know through about 1 year of SQL queries through ASP.I would like to see a book that had more advanced problems other than 150 pages of explaining JOIN statements, while providing examples someone might use on a daily basis. ...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
I didn't know a thing about SQL Server before opening this book. There was enough information to get me fairly comfortable with the SQL Server environment. Although, I now have found myself plowing through help files to find more advanced topics not covered in the book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, George McKee, Dave DuVarney
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, George McKee, Dave DuVarney
Rating: 1/5
The architecture overviews are good, but from there on it's full of errors and lacking the detail needed to make it useful. It has what you could loosely call "excercises" that I've gone through (step-by-step) and found many errors with. Errors that require many hours of debugging and fixing on the part of the reader. The writing is very cursory, overly broad and not detailed enough to be useful. The book often mentions that something useful CAN be done with Report Services but doesn't explain HOW to do it. Perhaps a revised edition is in order. One with more detail and with walkthroughs that have been followed, tested and confirmed accurate.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Pro SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II
Rating: 5/5
Title: Pro SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II
Rating: 5/5
This is a clear and concise step-by-step guide to the end-user side of the SQL Server reporting services. It's well written and has numerous (maybe too many) screenshots. The walkthroughs are explained in an easy-to-read and follow step by step manner. There is some C# code and SQL that describe, for example, how to integrate the reporting engine into a .NET application.
I recommend this book for anyone looking at developing with SQL Server Reports. It's definitely worth the look.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating Open Source, Server-Side Content
Publisher: Visual
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Joel Desamero
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating Open Source, Server-Side Content
Publisher: Visual
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Joel Desamero
Rating: 5/5
Based on the reviews here, I bought it. While it shows many of the important functions in PHP, it lacked that extra which pulls the concepts together.I think it would be very helpful if the authors took an example such as a guestbook or a message board which ties several concepts together and showed how to do it.
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
You need this book if:- Your new to XML and want to get up to speed with it- Your a Sql Svr dba or user and want to learn about its XML features- Your a developer and want to get the most out of Sql Svr's XML features- Your a developer and want to learn stored proc authorship from a masterAll in all the best buy for Sql Svr that there is.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 5/5
I just finished creating my first PHP web application, with this book as my guide. It is very valuable information, whether you are going to be using PHP on the job, or for a personal website of your own. If you do decide to use it for your own site, there are many web hosting companies that will let you use PHP & MySQL for less than $10/month.
First of all, I like that this book teaches MySQL together with PHP. While PHP is a application development language in its own right, many will be choosing PHP to work solely with MySQL. I fit this category so I bought the book.
The book is completely geared towards creating a data driven website from the start. You are shown how to interface to MySQL, receive data from the user, save state information, and other common tasks. The paradigm of web programming is very similar from ASP to JSP, you interact with the database, store some form of state, process forms, etc. If you are already familiar with this style of programming this book will have you going with PHP in no time. However, this book spends NO time on how to install or setup either PHP or MySQL. For the total beginner this could be a problem.
For the total beginner this book could be challenging. It is assumed that you know SQL. SQL syntax is presented and not really explained. What state is, and when you should use it are not presented. You are simply told how to setup state for your web pages. No coverage of HTML is provided. It really seems as the author assumes you are already an experienced web developer, just not in PHP.
For an experienced web developer this is a great book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
I've been attempting off an on again for over a year to get a grasp on creating and using stored procedures. I've searched the Internet for information, bought another book published by SAMS, read the white papers from Microsoft, just about everything I could think of. Nothing would sink in...Then after sitting back and giving up for a few months, I tried another search of the Amazon books online and found "SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming". I can't believe the ease of learning this book gave me with its simple step by step, hands on instructions. It finally started to click by the time I was in Chapter 3, I finally had a grasp of how to create and use stored procedures with Microsoft's SQL Server.I've been programming since 1976 and never had such a problem getting over a learning curve but this book's easy to follow, detailed and illustrated instructions made it a snap. My thanks go to Dejan Sunderic and Tom Woodhead for creating a top notch book that I'm having a hard time putting down as I'm having such a good time with it.
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
The book covers a lot of topics about programming in PHP and gives a reader good understanding about power of PHP. It includes useful examples. Very good for the people, who had an experience in ASP or Perl. Kind of "jump to PHP" bible. Unfortunately not all the topics keep the same level. I had a feeling that one of the authors just not as talented writer as his four friends are. Anyway it is a good book.
