IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I have a lot of different Sql Server and database books. Most of them end up being shelved and not used much. I read them through and glean the useful info from them and never return to them.Not so with this book. It has real staying power. I wish I had a dollar for every hard problem this book has helped me solve.Sophisticated Sql Server applications will necessarily involve sophisticated T-Sql. This book teaches how to approach the language holistically and learn a new way of coding in it. I don't know what the term would be: the guru way? Whatever it is, it's a whole new way of coding in T-Sql, an industrial strength, engineering-based methodology that teaches how to wield the language like a Sammari sword.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Earth (Dk Google E.Guides)
Publisher: DK Publishing
Authors: Matt Turner
Rating: 5/5
Title: Earth (Dk Google E.Guides)
Publisher: DK Publishing
Authors: Matt Turner
Rating: 5/5
DK and Google teamed up to create a book with a dedicated website. Not only can children find information about our world in this unique e.guide, they can then go online and follow age-appropriate links that are actively monitored for safe browsing.
Not only do the e.guides assist children with homework, they are fascinating to read and the author of "Earth" is a specialist in natural history and environmental science. Matt Turner has written many articles for young readers.
This book covers topics like the age of the earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, erosion, glaciers and ice sheets, deserts, tropical forests, wetlands, Polar Regions, waves and tsunamis, exploring the ocean depths and climate changes.
Earth also answers questions like:
Where are stars born?
How long does it take for the moon to circle the earth?
How does lunar gravity affect the tides?
There are cross-sections of volcanoes, satellite images of earthquakes, pictures of how islands form, pictures of animals that live in the ocean depths and pictures of hurricanes. This book does seem to focus on how violent our planet actually is and while we are always seeing devastating results from natural disasters on TV, this book takes a look at why these disasters occur and shows you the main Tsunami risk areas or how a Tsunami is linked to earthquakes and volcanoes.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
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 was terrible. Don't waste your time with it. It's problems:> Too hit-and-miss for beginners. Topics are not covered thoroughly.> Too basic for intermediate users. It fills lots of space with unhelpful info.> Shoddy work in general. Lots of typ-o's, anachronisms, and spelling errors.If you're trying to learn Transact-SQL, get a different book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 3/5
1.this book doesn't even list triggers in the table of contents, which means that triggers were not included in that book at all!! 2.i dont know why, but the examples in the book were so different in every page and every chapter. it was really hard to know what the examples were all about. 3.table contents and actual contents do not match sometimes. the author mixes oracle8 features with oracle 7 features while explaining about oracle7 features, which only gave me confusions. 4.the only thing that attracted me was the tips that helped me pretty much.. In conclusion, if you are a beginner to pl/sql, please do not buy this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Building Intelligent Databases With Oracle Pl/Sql, Triggers, and Stored Procedures (Oracle Series)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Kevin T. Owens, Kevin T. Owens
Rating: 4/5
Title: Building Intelligent Databases With Oracle Pl/Sql, Triggers, and Stored Procedures (Oracle Series)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Kevin T. Owens, Kevin T. Owens
Rating: 4/5
Stored procedures and especially triggers usually cooperate with other system components, they are sensitive to intricate system configuration changes. True appeciation of the power of Oracle environment comes from comparison of PL/SQL collections and APIs provided by built-in packages (like DMBS_PIPE) - with host operating system IPCs.Now we can see the challenge of BUILDING INTELLIGENT DATABASES: the book starts from PL/SQL basics and proceeds to exception handling, interprocesscommunication and database integrity enforcement.In ch.7 we find discussion of basic PL/SQL constructs, datatypes and data structures (including index by tables, but without collections that were added later) are covered by ch.9. Exceptions (necessary to deal with built-in packages) are described in ch.10.Material of chapters 14-17(trigger methodolgy and procedural constraints) is, in fact, software life cycle discussion: development starts from finding out what concrete objects are to be encapsulated and in what way, proprietary integrity constraints are determined. Then certain PL/SQL code is developed and tested, results are re-assessed, more code is developed, etc. - all on concrete code examples. Discussion of Mutable Table situation is very helpful.Basically, BUILDING INTELLIGENT DATABASES shows two things: how one actually builds PL/SQL applications and how general terminology can be used in the process.An important practical suggestion here is to develop triggers as wrappers for packages which is very helpful - from C++/Java point of view.Ch.19 discusses basic package testing using DBMS_OUTPUT. Package methods are usually called from other components, for example, Pro*C/C++ applications. So it is useful to simulate actual calls by special PL/SQL testing wrappers. Then actual component cooperation is tested.Sample code from the book is easy to read, I'd take it more as illustration than working demo or systemconfiguration benchmark.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Structured Query Language (Sql : a Practical Introduction)
Publisher: NCC Blackwell
Authors: Akeel I. Din
Rating: 5/5
Title: Structured Query Language (Sql : a Practical Introduction)
Publisher: NCC Blackwell
Authors: Akeel I. Din
Rating: 5/5
My father has a copy of this book, and someday I hope to find one for myself. It's a slim book that gets right down to business and shows you how to use the language with crystal-clear explanations and examples.Use this as your introductory text for learning SQL (hence the name). For more advanced and vendor-specific topics (triggers, stored procs, ect.) you'll probably need to look at the vendor's documentation. Also, you won't find too much database design theory in here either. That's not the book's purpose.This little dog-eared gem lives in our office and moves from desk to desk because it never fails to quickly answer our everyday SQL questions.
Product: Book Unknown Binding
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 5/5
Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Que
Authors: Stephen Wynkoop
Rating: 5/5
This book is a great resource! The layout is in very logical segments with some great examples. I look forward to using this book for a long time to come.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
I bought this book to supplement a graduate class in which we were researching a solution for an online automobile insurance application. We compared C++, PERL, ASP, JSP, and PHP.If you have programmed with another language, I would recommend this book. The syntax of loops, ifs, and case statements was covered. The object-oriented model of PHP was also expained. The book covered the two subjects I was primarily concerned with: databases and LDAP. These subjects are treated with vague explanations and some examples. I thought the examples were a bit skimpy and hard to follow. Some people have recommended using the online documentation. I would recommend buying this book to get a good foundation of PHP. Then, buy the PHP developer's cookbook to find solutions to problems you encounter. The online documentation is good as a reference manual. This book is good for some reference, but mostly to read from beginning to end in order to uncover the power of PHP. Once you understand the principles behind PHP, you can scour the web and the "Cookbook" for specific code for the solution you have devised within the limitations of PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Spring Into PHP 5
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Steven Holzner
Rating: 4/5
Title: Spring Into PHP 5
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Steven Holzner
Rating: 4/5
A good technical book should both lay all of the technical fundamentals, and then provide direction in how these fundamentals should be applied in the real world. This book does a great job, and I mean great, in giving a solid foundation in PHP and doing it very quickly (~300 pages).
Where it falls down is that the author doesn't provide tools for deciding which techniques to use where you have a choice. Particularly in the matter of database access. He presents the use of MySQL through the direct layer as well as through Pear::DB but doesn't provide any guidance in choosing one approach over the other.
That being said, for someone looking for an excellent introduction to PHP, as well as a fine ongoing reference work, you may have found your book here.
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
I have been working on sql server for several years and still my understanding went a level higher after reading this book. This is a must have book for everyone working on sql sever. This book does not cover backups& restore, security and DTS. But for the topics covered this book does a wonderful job. I would rate this book in the same level as Kerninghan& Ritchi's book on C, Bjarne Stoustroup book on C++ and Booch book on OOP. Not for beginners but essential for professional advanced users.
