IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 5/5
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 5/5
The chapters are easy to follow with real examples of how aspects of the languages work. Right away, the authors show you how to write a guest book, ending with how to write a shopping cart. I highly recommend this book to anyone with prior programming experience that wants to learn a new language.
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
Really a must have book for anyone thinking of getting started with PHP. However Session variables are a very important aspect of what you will do with PHP4.0, and this book only mentions it in passing (a major flaw, no doubt). Get a copy of PHP4 Bible by Tim Converse and Joyce Park for a great explanation of session. You will be very glad you did! (PHP4 rocks and session handling is a snap).
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Publisher: Rating: 4/5
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Publisher: Rating: 4/5
I've found this book an invaluable aid to learning PL/SQL. I recommend you buy this book in conjunction with George Koch's Oracle 8 The Complete Reference because Urman covers PL/SQL in more detail and Koch's book has a very good Alphabetical Reference but lacks detail in the PL/SQL stuff.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: How to Do Everything with Google
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman, Eric Fredricksen, Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman, Eric Fredricksen
Rating: 5/5
Title: How to Do Everything with Google
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman, Eric Fredricksen, Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman, Eric Fredricksen
Rating: 5/5
I thought I knew Google moderately well. It turns out, I didn't. I now know it better, and have a book to help me find more information more quickly when I need to. The book covers basic web search, and goes through a number of the more esoteric features (did you know you can do arithmetic in the search bar?) and goes on to discuss the news, Usenet news groups, directory, image search and Froogle, amongst other features. There's a little technical information about how Google does its stuff, but appropriately located in an appendix.The book is easily understood by anyone who can type 'google' in the search bar of their browser, and it will make you realize what an astounding resource Google is.
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
Excellent book when you are new to SQL Server reporting services. It covers all you need to create great reports. A small bit of time spent reading it will save you a considerable amount of time tinkering around with the new product. You will need other books to get the most out of the product, but this book is your best first stop.
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
If you're looking for a dummies book, a re-hash of SQL Server Books Online, or step-by-step instructions on how to run SQL Server's many wizards and other graphical tools, then keep looking. This book is definitely not for you. However, if you feel that an in-depth understanding of SQL Server internals can only help you do your job, whether you're a developer or a DBA, then this is the book you want on your shelf. If I could only afford to buy one book on SQL Server 2000, this would be my pick. Kalen has done an outstanding job with the latest in this series, producing an fascinating and well-written book that will deepen your understanding of SQL Server..
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
This is one of the books that I am reading now! I have been involved in software(web-based) projects range from $20,000 to $7,000,000 over the course of my career. This is the book that will help you "put the food on the table" if you are going to survive in competitive IT industries. For those people giving 1-3 stars rating must know more than Ken Henderson who works for Microsoft for more than ten years.
The first 400 pages of this book give you internal of the Window Operating system which will help many of you to use the system resource wisely and write better SQL code. The author is very knowledge about what Window OS and SQL server. It is a great book to have and put on your bookshelf for reference.
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: 2/5
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: 2/5
This book is not his basic volume in SQL, but his advanced volume. It helps you along explaining different issues with an excellent explanation of NULLS, their pros and their cons. It gives examples of solving problems in different SQL ways. A great buy.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 4/5
Our company is using this book to teach our training staff on how to build ad-hoc queries. We have people who had never used a SQL database before, and they found this book to very useful.
If we could only pick one book to use to teach someone on how to create SQL queries, it would have to be this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Weekend Crash Course
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Weekend Crash Course
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel
Rating: 5/5
I really enjoyed reading the book. Easy to understand, hands on approach and SQL Server 2000 trial edition is included - all I needed to get a jump start.
