IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 for Experienced DBAs
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 for Experienced DBAs
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
I just returned this because it is the worst Sql Server book I have ever read. It is full of bad advice and generalizations. The book tries to tell you that it doesn't get into details because it assumes only experienced DBAs will read it, but the real story is that it glosses over lots of important details and doesn't tell you anything that isn't already in the books online. Just a terrible, terrible book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL: 101 Frequently Asked Questions
Publisher: Komenda Pub. Co.
Authors: Gary M. Lewis, Alex Sirota
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL: 101 Frequently Asked Questions
Publisher: Komenda Pub. Co.
Authors: Gary M. Lewis, Alex Sirota
Rating: 5/5
It has some real jewels in here, even for a VERY experienced programmer. How to change the SQL prompt, compute all kinds of statistics, including MEDIAN very quickly. Worth $30.
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 saw this book at Oracle OpenWorld SF and knew I had to get it! This book has scripts that are immediately useful. Combining these scripts with my own personal library of code has increased my own efficiency and proficiency in Oracle! This is a must buy for anybody programming, operating, or administering Oracle environments. Kudos to Loney and Carmichael for this book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 3/5
I purchased the book having a little knowledge about PL/SQL programming and unfortunately reading this book didn't enhance my specific culture.
Nevertheless I think that it is a good item for novice PL/SQL programmer. They will find it an unvaluable working and training tool.
Finally, in my opinion, the preceding edition was richer in terms of contents and arguments.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
I have been searching for the books on e-commerce, as I didn't understand anything what was taught in the E-commerce class. I was just waiting someone would help me with this course, but the wait was too long the semester got over and I got a 'C' in that course. But then I found this book in Amazon, now I think it is worth the wait. It starts off with the basic fundamentals of what e-commerce is(unlike other books), and goes on to exlain SSL,Structuring,Hosting and deployment,and Integration with other systems. Obviously the best being the last one. It's like a complete e-commerce book for beginners as well as professionals.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
Rating: 5/5
SQL can be a threatening language for a beginner. Hernandez and Viescas's book provides an easy way to decipher and understand SQL. In particular, their method of converting real life questions into SQL queries is extremely useful and practical. The accompanying CD is extremely helpful. I highly recommend it for those who may be new to the subject and need a good introduction to the subject.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Black Book: A Resource for Real World Database Solutions and Techniques
Publisher: Paraglyph
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Patrick Dalton
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Black Book: A Resource for Real World Database Solutions and Techniques
Publisher: Paraglyph
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Patrick Dalton
Rating: 1/5
I bought this book on sale and thought it would be a good reference - looking at how large it is. However, I have not been able to get a single answer to any of my questions.The text goes into no in-depth explanations and it literally has copied the Books On-Line documentation that comes with SQL Server! I don't know how they got by with this as I compared it almost word-for-word in many, many places.I say it's a waste of time because you might as well use SQL's own doc because there's no extra cost and you can search for your topics. Then spend the money to get another reference that goes into more detail and covers what-if scenarios.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Developer's Dictionary
Publisher: Sams
Authors: R. Allen Wyke, Michael J. Walker, Robert M. Cox
Rating: 1/5
Title: Php Developer's Dictionary
Publisher: Sams
Authors: R. Allen Wyke, Michael J. Walker, Robert M. Cox
Rating: 1/5
I own and constantly refer to this book and am constantly disappointed. The PHP Developer's Cookbook (nearly identical cover) is a handy book, but don't waste your money on this one. If you need a good basic introductory text on PHP look to the 56 other PHP titles Amazon stocks. The examples in this one are unclear, the treatment of most topics is incomplete. While the introductory chapters provide an interesting overview of PHP's functionality, it cannot be depended on as a faithful reference for day-to-day use. Just compare its treatment of classes or data types to that in other texts. Or give a careful read to functions that require careful documentation-like formatting of dates. The book just leaves you confused or in the dark. The book doesn't even do a decent job of summarizing the online docs. I wish I had been more careful.Whether you are a beginner or an advanced developer this is just not the title you want.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
This book is really straight forward for me, beginner to PHP and mySQL with some knowledge of HTML.
The best part I like is this book has big font size and easy-to-read compared to other complicated techy thick books.
I followed the book page by page, configured the environment in windows, and it works.
I think all info is coverd with this book.
Code samples are also simple and useful, I made a membership website with PHP with changing part of the sample code in this book.
Of course, I needed some extra information from internet or some other books just for small reference, but this book was my best text.
The list of website in appendix were very useful.
I recommand this book to all PHP and mySQL beginners.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Developer's Dictionary
Publisher: Sams
Authors: R. Allen Wyke, Michael J. Walker, Robert M. Cox
Rating: 4/5
Title: Php Developer's Dictionary
Publisher: Sams
Authors: R. Allen Wyke, Michael J. Walker, Robert M. Cox
Rating: 4/5
Most of this book is the VERY BASIC description of operators, functions, constants, objects, properties, and methods and that's about it.It breaks them down into categories (string manipulation, database, etc) and then has a SHORT description of what they do and what arguements need to be passed to them, etc. Other than that, there isn't much else there.[..].One of the main problems I have with this book (and others like it) is that you have to know the name of the function or object to use it. If I want to know how to use mysql_connect, then that's no problem. However, if I want to know how to yank the two left most characters out of a string, I guess I'm going to be browsing every function in the string section until I find it.This book just takes the wrong approach. If I had all of that stuff memorized, then I probably wouldn't need the book. However, since I don't have it memorized, it's rather hard to find it in the book since I don't know the name of it.Would have gave it 3 stars except it basically does meet the criteria that it is advertised under, so I can't knock it for that. So, for being a categorized list of the PHP language then it's great (although, how hard can that be. I wonder if I too can print out the PHP.net documentation and get it published).
