IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 5/5
The author has explained things neatly but the problem is you seem to be taken in for more theortical info than a Hands on approach. I wanted to master sql 2000 in short time since I new sql 7.0 but it has consumed more time than that . If you are serious to learn and get a grasp of it in short time then this is not the book.Guna
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
If you already have experience w/ VB, then this is a good book to get started with. I didn't have any exposure to SQL Server before opening this book. It make me familiar with the basics of SQL Server, though now I am plowing through help files to find more advanced information. Good book, but will leave you wanting more...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 1/5
For such a thick, heavy book, this one just doesn't seem to have much worthwhile content in it... lotta screen shots though. I basically bought this hoping to use it as a reference. This book is not a reference book at all. "o man, I forgot what order to put the arguements of the DATEADD function in... where do I look?" To make things easy to find, it's mentioned in the table of contents as one of the first topics in the Views section. His book on SQL 7 was better than this one. Looking at the picture on the cover gives me a headache too.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Learning Oracle PL/SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Bill Pribyl
Rating: 4/5
Title: Learning Oracle PL/SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Bill Pribyl
Rating: 4/5
I've only read three chapters so far. It's been very good actually - I knew some SQL beforehand, although nothing very complicated, and it has been pretty easy for me to understand as well as very helpful for me in learning how to use PL/SQL. It has genuinely useful examples, and also provides tips as to how to perform unit testing on stored procedures and functions.Another very useful thing the author does is list common and not-as-common mistakes that a programmer may make (which may not always result in errors or exceptions), hence possibly saving you the trouble of hours of debugging.The only problem I've had with it is that he doesn't treat foreign keys as constraints. One of his sample column declarations is: "isbn VARCHAR2(100) FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES books (isbn)", but I kept getting an error until I changed it to: "isbn VARCHAR2(100), FOREIGN KEY (isbn) REFERENCES books (isbn)". I am not sure if this is a peculiarity of my installation (running Oracle 9i), but a check online reveals that many people also consider foreign keys a constraint.Except for that problem, I would have given this book 5 stars.
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Publisher: Rating: 4/5
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Publisher: Rating: 4/5
The book is indeed worth the money (if your boss is paying :). I have never seen so many PL/SQL techniques and close-to-real-life examples before. I was starting a new project involving extensive PL/SQL programming, and although I had 3-year experience, I've found myself working with the book on my keyboard. There are some quite important tips I could never suggest - e.g. like sysdate usage. But of course there are some questions that the book doesn't anwser, for example how to implement error log that survives a rolback. The book is targeted both for DBA's and developers, a concept is a little bit new for me.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Leon Atkinson, Zeev Suraski
Rating: 5/5
Title: Core PHP Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Leon Atkinson, Zeev Suraski
Rating: 5/5
Great combination of PHP programming basics, function reference, how-to and guidance on project development. I was pleasantly surprised with the depth of coverage and extensive sample code.Brings you up to date with the new PHP5 changes and zend engine improvements. You can't go wrong.And to previous one star reviewer: Jason Fortuny from Kirkland WA, one look at his wish list will tell you a few things about whether to take his review seriously.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Bill and Google Eyed Goblins (Cassette and Hardbook)
Publisher: Random House Inc (T)
Authors: Alice Schertle
Rating: 3/5
Title: Bill and Google Eyed Goblins (Cassette and Hardbook)
Publisher: Random House Inc (T)
Authors: Alice Schertle
Rating: 3/5
My son lives by this book, but i am afraid it is teaching him bad english skills. He walks up to random people and repeats the key phrase in this book: "I am a doofus google eyed goblin!" It kind of embarrases me when he does this. Overall, it encourages your kids to read, so if it's available, get it!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Sql Guide to Oracle
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: R. Van Der Lans
Rating: 3/5
Title: The Sql Guide to Oracle
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: R. Van Der Lans
Rating: 3/5
This book does in fact cover the basics of SQL. However,
the guide to Oracle part of the title is inaccurate. Only a
small fraction of this book has anything particular to
do with Oracle. For example, the entire section on PL/SQL
is under thirty pages and the data dictionary rates only
a couple of paragraphs.
The index is woeful. Many subjects are covered in the book
and not mentioned in the index which makes this a difficult
volume to use as a reference.
The best audience for this book would be students taking a
high-school or undergraduate course in beginning SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 3/5
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 3/5
I recently began a web database project and had to self-teach myself PHP and MySQL, therefore I bought several books from Amazon looking to cover the bases. I disagree with some other reviews posted here, the text IS AN INTRODUCTION but this is not obvious from the title or the editorial reviews on Amazon. The review referring to editing errors I COULD NOT AGREE WITH, I did not find "errors" or typos, maybe I'm not very observant or don't know the subject well enough yet.Anyway ... the text does a good job at presenting the PHP language and how to operate on MySQL database back-ends, that is the purpose of the book. The sections on PHP are introductory, but well done. Comprehensive descriptions of string and reg-exp functions are provided. A good section for beginners is titled "Common Mistakes" that describe why you get a blank browser screen or what those darned header messages are about. The MySQL section is well done, providing ample samples of the different query types and advanced joins and keys. I also liked the portion that describes using PHP with other RDMS systems via ODBC and to Oracle. Linking PHP and MySQL is well handled and sections on authentication and session management are practical and real-world. The text ONLY includes one overall application system, a psuedo online winestore that includes a shopping cart and purchasing concept. The appendix include a really good treatise on HTTP and describing how Requests and Responses are handled and the status codes.I had great expectations for this O'Reilly text as many of their critter-adorned texts are in my library. I expected the text to be more advanced than it is. The lack of other sample applications is a weakness, for the price you can get other texts with more comprehensive samples. Afterall, many of us buy these books to try and help us quickly solve "Our Immediate Problem", more samples would have helped this effort better.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Performance Troubleshooting: With Dictionary Internals, SQL & Tuning Scripts (Oracle In-Focus series)
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Robin Schumacher
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Performance Troubleshooting: With Dictionary Internals, SQL & Tuning Scripts (Oracle In-Focus series)
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Authors: Robin Schumacher
Rating: 5/5
I was happy to see a book on Oracle troubleshooting because I have been in trouble before and had no scripts to run to detect poblems or troubleshoot the Oracle problem. After downloading the scripts I now have an arsenal of tools to run whenwher I have problems.The text itself is easy to read and clear, and Schumacher has done an excellent job in explaining the concepts and troubleshooting areas. I highly recommend this text for Oracle DBA's who need to keep their systems running during emergencies and who lack troubleshooting experience.
