IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
This book is exactly what I was looking for. It's a great reference, and has good tutorials. It also very up to date, and deals with the new version of PHP defaulting to Register_Globals = Off. With this off, it can 'break' code, and this book explained work-arounds well. I reccomend! It also describes some security issues as well, making it a very well rounded reference.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 4/5
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 4/5
Personally i have some experience on perl/cgi programming, thus this book provide me a new perspective to web designing using a different programming approach thru PHP. if u are at the cross junction in deciding whether to learn perl or php, i will personally suggest perl 1st and later on, on php. but mysql is a must is u want to create a database website. this book is easy to undestand but while i was reading from page 1 to 80 i realise there are some programming syntax that are misleading, to list a few, signed and unsigned integer are interpreted wrongly, so are GET and POST interpreted as action in HTML form Tag. just be alert while reading this book.But on a whole i give this book a 4 because it gives u 7 practical useful web application ranging from guestbook, survey, catalog, shopping cart etc. this book provides a good readup for MySQL on chapter 1 whether u are using perl or php. buy this book if u want to learn php for web database implentation. it is straight to the point. and if u want to know more indept on MySQL u can trust on paul dubois's MySQL. i gave that full thumbs up.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 4/5
Title: Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 4/5
First of all, I couldn't recommend this book for beginners. It is, however, PERFECT for the SQL programmer with some experience who is looking to take his/her SQL abilities to the next level. There are great pure SQL solutions for problems that many programmers think must be done outside of SQL in a host language. One of the most important lessons from the book is this: think in terms of sets and set theory instead of in terms of columns and rows. Lots of other great info though. Be warned: the examples are all written in the SQL-92 ANSI standard. Examples will have to be modified if your vendor-specific implementation of SQL doesn't follow the standard precisely. Kudos to Joe.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (Unleashed)
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David Solomon, Ray Rankins, David S. Solomon, Jeff Steinmetz
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (Unleashed)
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David Solomon, Ray Rankins, David S. Solomon, Jeff Steinmetz
Rating: 4/5
The 3rd edition is much improved providing great breath of topic coverage. On the downside the coverage of extended stored procedures is one page so this is not a programmers book. It is one of those books that has something to say about everything SQL Server could possibly be employed to do, and that makes it unique. IMHO the publisher should break this book into a 3-4 book series and work on adding depth in future editions. Buy other books for depth at this time such as Soukup's for insights and background, SQL Server Programming for programming and England's book on Performance and Optimization and Tuning if interested. I'm a 25+ year programmer in 15 or so languages (prefering C & C++) and believe SQL is pretty easy to pick up if you are willing to read 5-6 good books. Make this one of them.
Product: Book Textbook Binding
Title: McSe Testprep SQL Server 6.5 Administration (Mcse Testprep Series)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Sean Baird
Rating: 1/5
Title: McSe Testprep SQL Server 6.5 Administration (Mcse Testprep Series)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Sean Baird
Rating: 1/5
This book really missed the mark as a study guide. A good percentage of the information is inaccurate and conflicting. I found it next to impossible to navigate test questions for material not even covered. Once I encountered errors that just made it worse. I found myself double checking with the Microsoft's Books Online to resolve these issues. By the time I printed Books Online topics as a backup, I might as well have not had the book at all!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
I have many books on this subject and this is by far the best. If you want to learn php/mysql and find good uses for it this is the book you should have. There are some that just talk PHP that are better on that level but for doing both in one book this is the one.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Dba Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: Orryn Sledge, Mark Spenik
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Dba Survival Guide
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: Orryn Sledge, Mark Spenik
Rating: 5/5
No other book on the market even comes close with respect to the DBA specific aspects of SQL server. All the rest are a mix of developer/DBA material. If you just want to know how to administer SQL this is definately the book for you!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Portable DBA: SQL Server
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Damir Bersinic, Stephen Giles
Rating: 5/5
Title: Portable DBA: SQL Server
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Damir Bersinic, Stephen Giles
Rating: 5/5
Even though I have read only the first two chapters so far, I can still say this book is definately worth owning. The amount of information in the introductory chapters alone make this book a worthwhile purchase, especially given its relatively low price. The author's writing style is conversational without being condescending or idiotically simplistic. Reading the book, I feel I have an experienced friend giving me many worthwhile tips and suggestions. I really think you will find this book to be a worthwhile purchase.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL-99 Complete, Really
Publisher: CMP Books
Authors: Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL-99 Complete, Really
Publisher: CMP Books
Authors: Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer
Rating: 5/5
the book is huge and has much useful information in it. However, I was somewhat disappointed in regard to the completeness claim the title (and the size) suggests. Especially the more advanced features (the book marks most of them them as "obscure") are not covered well at all. In particular, the new features for handling inheritance with UDTs are hardly ever mentioned, let alone illustrated with examples.It seems that in places where they lack experience of their own, the authors copy the reference manuals at best, sometimes not even that.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 Database Design Study Guide (Exam 70-229)
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Syngress Media Inc, Anil Desai, Jeffery Bane, Craig Robinson
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 Database Design Study Guide (Exam 70-229)
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Syngress Media Inc, Anil Desai, Jeffery Bane, Craig Robinson
Rating: 2/5
Needing to pass another test to keep my MCSD cert, I tried this book as prep for 70-229. Did the whole thing and examples. From passing other cert tests I knew it was LIGHT on specifics!. Talkes a lot about SQL server and new features in a general way but skirts around necessary details, specifics and examples needed to pass... Had to buy another book(Que Exam Geer: 70-229 SQL Design/Implement) and then went and past the test...
