IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Special Edition Using SQL (SE Using)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Rafe Colburn
Rating: 5/5
Title: Special Edition Using SQL (SE Using)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Rafe Colburn
Rating: 5/5
The copy my company owns is so good, I decided to buy one for myself! This is an excellent reference to SQL and database design in general, from a basic discussion of the normal forms to the most complex applications of SQL. I use it as a learning tool as well as a reference. It features easy, understandable examples and discussions of the real-world differences between databases, application servers, and development techniques. Highly recommended.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
This book has several fundamental flaws. First, it doesn't stay on point. There are all sorts of tangents and asides that totally waste your time. Second, it's written really poorly. The prose is boring and plain. Third, it's inaccurate in many places and leaves out newer commands and important details. I returned this one for a refund.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
After programming for a year in PHP I still use it to give me ideas or find some 'neat rrick' I either forgot about or did not know.
When I first started programming it was not easy. Then I found this book.
You can use the examples to amke your first login/user page for your site...simple.
Advanced techniques and a good feel for mysql is an added bonus.
I would say this is the first book you should get for PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL from the Ground Up
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mary Pyefinch
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL from the Ground Up
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mary Pyefinch
Rating: 1/5
I just bought the book 2 days ago and I am going bring it back to the bookstore and have my money refund ! I first looked at the chapter on transactions and although I read the material on isolation levels several times, I was unable to understand it. Fortunately I had on hand an article on transactions in Java where I could understand the concept ! I also tried to understand the way intermediate save points have to be used. I then decided this book was not really usable and would better go back to its original shelf !
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
The book is good. It teaches essential and good SQL skill, and provides a good understanding.
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
Kalen does it again. This is one of the best books that is available on SQL Server and talks in detail about how sql server works. The code samples in the book are excellent and are very helpful to illustrate the points that the author makes.She is an excellent author. I storngly recommend this book to all SQL Server professionals.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 3/5
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 3/5
This book did not help me when I really needed it. It is for beginners, and not to be used as a reference in a real work environment. Most of the information is incorrect. Check out The Administrator's Guide by Kevin Cox and William Jones. It's a slim book to carry around and it does not cost as much.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 3/5
This book is good for all Oracle Developer who write SQL statement. If developer who write SQL statement will read through this book before, there will be no performance problem.However, I know that most of the developers will not care about the performance of the SQL statement. They may find that their SQL statement will execute very fast in testing environment because the number of records there is 1/10 time of the production, they need to do is to deliver the programs on time and the output of the program is corrected. Performance issue is not their major concern. After the completion of the program development, a big problem relating to performance issue will be unveiled in load test or volume test, much more effort and money will be spent in performance tunning because of bad SQL statements. I am a project manager of a system integration company, I really want that a automatic SQL tunning package is in the world which can help us to scan through all the source codes and find out the problematic SQL statements and give us the alternative SQL statements with better performance.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Understanding Relational Databases with Examples in SQL-92
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Fabian Pascal
Rating: 5/5
Title: Understanding Relational Databases with Examples in SQL-92
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Fabian Pascal
Rating: 5/5
This is the book that jumped my career orders of magnitude higher than it otherwise would have been. It does take some quiet time to read and understand this book. If you're looking for an MSAccess primer to read on the bus on the way in to your HTML scripting job, this isn't it, buy a "dummies" book. On the other hand, if you want to understand the guiding principles of ALL database design and modeling (which is the critical core task of all information application development), and then be better at it than 99% of your peers, I don't know of a better document you could possibly study. In terms of real world, on the job usefullness, this book surpasses ANYTHING else I've EVER read about Information Technology.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
When I heard that a couple of the guys that surf the SQL newsgroups were writing a book I thought "this will be great." I couldn't have been more wrong. This is a terrible book. There are so many errors that the code is nigh useless. It's also full of bad advice and things that should never be in a book. My respect for these two has gone down a couple of notches - I'll have to watch their advice on the newsgroups a little more closely.
