IT programming books related reviews
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: 5/5
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: 5/5
Apparently I was not advance, well now i am.. yes it does n ot teach TSQL but it shows other things and others people ideas too..so...I posted a previous review but it did not show up maybe the guys at amazon need this book to write the SELECT * FROM Reviews WHERE Authors=blah blah.. I guess..
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Database Design, Study Guide (Exam 70-29)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Database Design, Study Guide (Exam 70-29)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Rating: 2/5
This book does practically nothing to help prepare for the SQL test. The examples are simplistic, the exam questions are nothing like you will see on the actual test, and the information hardly even qualifies this book as a reference. There's a lot to learn for this test. Don't get suckered into thinking that this will help.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server Backup and Recovery: Tools and Techniques
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Frank McBath
Rating: 2/5
Title: SQL Server Backup and Recovery: Tools and Techniques
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Frank McBath
Rating: 2/5
Author calls it concise monograph that covers a wide variety of backup and recovery issues with plenty of examples. Well, concerning backup section there are more examples in Books on Line. No backup options are explained (i.e. You would use this option to do this particular thing). Absolutely NO scenarios are given. Only a few basic backup statements without any explanation what to run before and after backup. There is an interesting script "Monitoring the Completion of a Backup" - almost 3 pages of code but there is no download option so it is up to the reader to type it in. What a waste of time. Author often makes a point how bad backup and restore practices are in places he did the consulting for. I think they are no better or worse than the books we have to learn from.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
This book was my lifeline when I moved from Informix to Sql 2k. My shop recently moved all of our applications (about 15) from Informix to Sql 2k. We could not have done it without this book.It builds on what you can find in the product documentation and teaches the many things you have to know to use Transact-Sql in real production systems. The product docs don't tell even half the story so a book like this is indespensible.We bought 20 copies of this book when we first began researching our migration. Now that we're through we're adding some more team members so I am buying five more copies this afternoon. I would hate to think where our migration would have ended up without this great book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
This book is a great reference for advanced PHP developers, and easy enough for beginners. It has some nice examples for each function, and gives some good applications for PHP. This book is a must for any web developer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 4/5
This book contains information that you can implement within a few minutes.It is clear and explains the concepts of Apache webserver in a simple manner.I implemented virtual hosting within minutes of reading this book!Great book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
This book has an easy reading structure, but its quite strange that they try to make it "easy" from the beginning, but afterwards they jump straight to building SQL tables, etc. When the main idea was to teach you the PHP primers. Woudnt recommend this book much if you really want to know what PHP is from the beginning, and knowing that afterwards it wont get deep enough in to the field.
Product: Book Textbook Binding
Title: SQL Server System Administration (The Landmark Series)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Chris Miller, Sean Baird, John Lynn, Michael Hotek, Denis Darveau
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server System Administration (The Landmark Series)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Chris Miller, Sean Baird, John Lynn, Michael Hotek, Denis Darveau
Rating: 1/5
This book is a joke. It is not very helpfull even to the advanced users, much less to people who are new to SQL Server. In short you would be much better of reading books on line. Shame on authors and editors.
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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: 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
As Mann states the audience for this book is for the beginner and intermediate audience. Let's face it we are all beginners at this stage! In a step-by-step well thought out manner, Mann guides the reader through the set-up of SQL Server Reporting Services.
He then guides the reader through the steps required to 'kick-start' his/her productivity with this new and exciting product.The sections that I found the most useful included the sections on "Report processing and management" in addition to the section on the "Deployment of reports".The book can be read in one sitting, and one can become productive in surprisingly short period of time.
The author is to be commended for his efforts.
