IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Plain and simple - THE guide to use to start programming PHP. Half way through, I was dying to get finished so I could start developing my own projects. PHP is a great language for Web programmers!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Code Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Garth Wells
Rating: 2/5
Title: Code Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Garth Wells
Rating: 2/5
I'm not sure what the goal with this book was, but it fails to deliver on anything positive. First, the coverage of the language as a whole is really weak. Whole subjects are completely glossed over. Moreover, if you're an advanced coder, you won't find anything you don't already know in this book. it's really for begginner's only, but as I've said, the beginner type coverage is really lacking. Worse yet, many of the examples are incomplete, tediously long (useless comments abound), and impractical. If you're looking for a good T-SQL book, keep looking.
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
If you're unfamiliar with SQL Reporting Services, this book provides a quick overview. You can get the idea without being overwhelmed or bogged down in details. If time and money are precious, this is the book for you!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
This book is fantastic! It's by far the best Transact SQL book I have ever read! It covers even the latest procedures and functions up to ASE 12.5.2 If you are working with Transact SQL, this book is an absolute must have!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Begin'ers + Mid Lvls Using SQL Svr 2K-- Get this book!!!
...Have experience with programming langs. like c++, java, vb, c# (and other procedural and OOP langs.)? Having trouble transitioning from procedural and OOP langs to set/list based T-SQL? Get this book.
This book is great. Plenty of explanations of T-SQL concepts. The author is a good writter. Many thanks to the author and publisher for putting the entire book on the CDROM as a PDF file. Now I can take the book with me without the extra weight. I have it on my laptop. I will be studying for my 1st SQL exam in two months, but in the mean time I'm able to finish my DB project at work now.
I bought it because I wanted to be able to write stored proc's., user defined functions, sub-queries, DTS packages, and learn how to schedule jobs in SQL Server. Also I needed some well explained examples of creative uses of select statements and sub-queries. The author delivers. For example, turning a single column in a table into a comma separate value list (CSV list). Which is often used with look-up tables used to populate a drop-down list or multi-select list.
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DECLARE @strValue VARCHAR(30)
SET @strValue = ''
SELECT @strValue = @strValue + tbl_Cities.CityName ','
FROM tbl_Cities
Result is like... "New York City,Chicago,Miami,Dallas"
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There is another book that is recommended/hailed as the best T-SQL book, but this book will get you up and running fast and offers more than just T-SQL... plenty of SQL Server admin content and practice advice that is used in the real world.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Anthology
Publisher: SitePoint
Authors: Harry Fuecks
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Anthology
Publisher: SitePoint
Authors: Harry Fuecks
Rating: 5/5
There were so many details in this book that I attempted to find on-line, but had no luck. This book is worth ten times its price. Great job! Thanks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov
Rating: 5/5
I picked up this book because of unparalleled comparative coverage of SQL amongst RDBMS implementations (SQL Server / DB2 / ORACLE); and I am programming for all these, plus Access and FoxPro. If you need to get up to the speed working in heterogeneous database environments - get this book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Mark A. Linsenbardt, M. Shane Stigler, Shane Stigler
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Mark A. Linsenbardt, M. Shane Stigler, Shane Stigler
Rating: 5/5
It seems if you're not supporting over 1k users (or a global network), Microsoft textbooks are harder to comprehend to your situation. Micosoft books focus on what the software is capable of, while this book focuses on what you are likely to encounter on the job. If you like the query analyzer, this book is for you. Highly recommended.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is simply the best SQL Server, and possible the best database book I've ever read. If you are a SQL Server developer, this is the only book you will need. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and thorough discussion of all fundamental concepts a developer must know. Other books I've read fail to cover or lack depth on so many topics, such as database locks, query and performance optimization, and SQL Server functions and syntax constructs. This book however was not only extremely informative, but was well organized and easy to understand. I enjoyed every page.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
This is a Great book, but it focuses on many items at the time and dont quite explain the items as they should. This book is allways a must, for all the people interested in getting started in e-commerce because it takes a tour to all the tech knowledge needed to implement e-commerce solutions.
