IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
Title: OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
I must admit I really didn't try that hard to study for this exam. I did, however, have a database class in school that went over some simple SQL syntax, but I still did need to look over Oracle SQL. I only studied for a week with this book and passed by the brim of my teeth 41/57. Wheeww!!! Anyway, all the questions I was asked on the exam were covered in the book and I am glad to say that this book was my sole source of information.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
I just recieved this book today and spent some quality time looking through it. As with most WROX books, the examples are useful, real-world presentations and I was pleasantly surprised to see some screenshots that used Mozilla as well as Internet Explorer, illustrating the truly cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility of the language. Thanks to the WROX team for another outstanding reference, and of course thanks to Rasmus Lerdorf for giving us the best platform-agnostic, HTML-embedded, server-side web scripting language available to date.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Kevin Loney, Rachel Carmichael
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Kevin Loney, Rachel Carmichael
Rating: 5/5
I just bought this book yesterday and read some of the scripts. They are really good and the authors have taken care to explain them in detail. Worth the penny, for any serious dba/developer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
the best book ive ever seen!!!!not for rookies about programming but it opened my eyes about lots of tricks and capabilities of the best scripting language :)a must for every PHPer!!!! :)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Backup and Recovery
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Anil Desai
Rating: 2/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Backup and Recovery
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Anil Desai
Rating: 2/5
Most of the contents of this books are fillers. It is obvious the publisher (Osborne) demanded the author to write a 500 page book in order to justify the exorbitant cost of this book. The real information on backup and recovery does not start until page 331!!!! The author is a good writer and obviously had lot of IT experience. He does his best to make the book as informative as possible. But it is apparent that backup and recovery information is not worth 500 pages of text.I think the book could have been salvaged quite well if the last chapter on case studies of backup and recovery scenario was better written, but this is where the author REALLY bombed. His recovery steps can all be summarized as recovering the full, then incremental, then transaction logs. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about SQL recovery knows THAT.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jamie A. Reding, Steve Adrien DeLuca, Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jamie A. Reding, Steve Adrien DeLuca, Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia
Rating: 5/5
I have been very satisfied with "Inside SQL Server" for so long, and have been keeping it by my desk. However, this one is more focused on Performance Tuning. You can find things from planning your hardware until tuning your Datawarehouse in here. Lastly, if you want to know about the detail architecture of SQL Server, get "Inside SQL Server". If you want to focus on Performance Tuning, this is the best book so far. I will keep both of them by my desk.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft® SQL Server 7 Secrets®
Publisher:
Authors: David K. Rensin, Andrew M. Fedorchek, William C. Amo
Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft® SQL Server 7 Secrets®
Publisher:
Authors: David K. Rensin, Andrew M. Fedorchek, William C. Amo
Rating: 3/5
Not a bad book, but like most books on SQL 7, it's raw, and sometimes inacurate. My biggest complaint is the quality of examples. Guess people who wrote it didn't have time to use their brains (had they any..?). Still this book is better than 'Inside SQL 7' by MS.
Product: Book
Title: CramSession's Designing & Implementing Data Warehouses with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 : Certification Study Guide
Publisher: Rating: 1/5
Title: CramSession's Designing & Implementing Data Warehouses with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 : Certification Study Guide
Publisher: Rating: 1/5
The first 7 of the 23 pages are legal stuff and a Table of contents. The rest of it is just high level bullet points. I got more information from Microsoft.com.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
Fluff, fluff, and more fluff. Unless you have some sort of vested interest in this book I think you too will agree it is hardly even worth one star. It is full of white space, one can see it has been printed with a view towards making as many pages as possible - big text, spread out paragraphs, etc - like we used to do in high school when we needed a ten page paper but had very little worth while to present to the reader. This is bad enough and certainly would make any programming book suspect when such tricks are resorted to. But flipping through the book I also came upon a number of errors in the code and text and there must be many more I missed (since I did not purchase the book and use valuable time attempting to learn from it). There is little of anything new here that can not be seen, almost word for word, in the main PHP website in the manual. It seems the author basically copied and pasted this material from the net (and added his errors to round it out) to make a book. Save your money, wait for the movie.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
If you read this book you will learn how to get around in SQL 7.0 quickly, yes. However, a book you can read in half a day is bound to miss some information that could be very frustrating very soon. For example, there is not clear information about how different data formats interact. Pretty useful information!If you are really going to be getting into SQL 7.0, it may be worthwhile to take another day or two and read Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming by Robert Vieira instead. It is a little more thorough without being a boat-anchor.
