IT programming books related reviews
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: 5/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
I develop with SQL drivers for windows 95 and this book is a good guide, exact commands for this version of SQL
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Ryan B. Bloom
Rating: 2/5
Title: Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Ryan B. Bloom
Rating: 2/5
Wow I was lost in the first 50 pages. Threw that book away. Might be good for programers that know some of the stuff. Very hard to follow book. Never going to buy another book without Amazon.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days (2nd Edition, Book Only)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days (2nd Edition, Book Only)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Are you desiring to become a competent DBA, pass the related MCP exam, get hands on experience with and understand the general methodology of all features, or just dabble with some basic Transact SQL on SQL Server 2000 look no further. The book is written for persons with no to intermediate experience but the information contained within is applicable to all skill levels. The delivery of information is depicted in a clear and concise manner. The authors have definitely been around the block with previous versions of Microsoft SQL Server. Their experiences conveyed are instrumental in your present and future employment plus will save you valuable time that can be utilized more wisely elsewhere. My thoughts are if you desire to build a house you need to build a strong foundation first. If you don't you'll have ongoing structural problems and a leaking roof etc. This book will provide you with a strong foundation if you work through and apply its teachings. Prior to purchasing this book I've implemented and supported approximately thirty plus databases on Microsoft SQL Server 6x and 7 and one on 2000.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL: A Developer's Guide
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Bulusu Lakshman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL: A Developer's Guide
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Bulusu Lakshman
Rating: 5/5
This book really makes PL/SQL concepts very clear. I was actully refreshing my PL/SQL concepts after 3 years and this book was very helpful to me. The way each and every topic is presented in here left no doubt about that topic in my mind. This book is worth reading even for them who are new to PL/SQL. All the topics starting from Cursors, Packages, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Exceptions....etc are presented in the most conceptual and clear format.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
I have read many books on PHP, but this one had a lot of professional PHP knowledge to impart.Also helped me brush up my PHP knowledge.Keep these books coming.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Insider's Guide To SEO: How To Get Your Website To The Top Of The Search Engines
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Authors: Andreas Ramos, Stephanie Cota
Rating: 4/5
Title: Insider's Guide To SEO: How To Get Your Website To The Top Of The Search Engines
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Authors: Andreas Ramos, Stephanie Cota
Rating: 4/5
The Insider's Guide to SEO is a short book, but well organized and an easy read. It seems to cover the ins and outs of optimizing for Google almost exclusively, which is probably OK, being that this year Google has well over 50% of searches. It's advice seems mostly common sense, but sometimes stating the obvious can be good. As a relative newbie to SEO, I feel I picked up a lot.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
This is a MUST HAVE book if you're writing lots of SQL (in Oracle) and need to make sure it is as efficient as possible. Lots of real-world examples, with side-by-side comparisons of different queries that all produce the same result via different methods. It is easy to apply these techniques in my work. I have six books from Oracle Press, and while they are good as reference material, I find myself using them basically for syntax or server tuning, and never for PL/SQL tuning. Guy Harrison's book is a permanent fixture on my desk; this book covers table access methods, how to avoid unnecessary table scans, how to use TKPROF (with some excellent ratios and things to look for in the output), etc. The list goes on. I would strongly recommend this to anyone who writes SQL (in Oracle) on a daily basis.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 4/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 4/5
This book covers the objectives for the SQL Server 7 administration exam in a reasonable way. However, it fails to achieve greatness because it is based on a beta version of SQL Server 7 (probably beta 3), and it came out long before anyone had seen the FINAL version of the Microsoft test. As such, the book has a few flaws and probably fails to cover some of the areas that will be important on the test. Even so, I found the book well worth the money I paid. In fact, unlike some of the other exam guides I've bought in the past, this one will stay on my shelf even after I pass.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Toby Butzon
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Toby Butzon
Rating: 1/5
I picked this book up because I needed to learn PHP and really liked the 'XML by Example' book in the Que series. This book does not work very well, however. The pacing is too slow, with lots of the book's content spent laboring through trivial language elements (control structures, functions, etc.). In the final example, when the book culminates in a useful Web application (a simple, MySQL-based guestbook program), the reader who tries to get the code to work discovers that the book is out-of-date, relying on global variables and session management information that is done very differently in current releases of PHP. I was able to debug the example with help from O'Reilly's 'PHP Cookbook', which helped with everything except figuring out a way to get my money back for this turkey.
Product: Book
Title: Getting The Search Engine Ranking Your Website Deserves: : META Tags Yield To Google's PageRank As Search Engine Standard
Publisher:
Authors: John Henderson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Getting The Search Engine Ranking Your Website Deserves: : META Tags Yield To Google's PageRank As Search Engine Standard
Publisher:
Authors: John Henderson
Rating: 1/5
I have read many FREE articles on search engine optimization. There was nothing new here. I'll give him some credit how he describes linking within your site...but you should buy Google Hack. It's only $ more. This 14 page, big font article is NOT worth $. I want my money back. This is the first time I have ever written a review...because I was dissapointed. Buy Google Hack.
