IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Guy Harrison
Rating: 5/5
Absolutly this is the best book about SQL tuning I have had. This is essential for the Oracle developers to know how to optimize the applications. Although Harrison says this is not a book for the DBA's, I think this is a "must has book" for the DBA's too. I use this book as reference to optimize the code of the applications and to know about the best optimization.Excellent work in this book. Thanks Mr. Harrison.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Couchman
Rating: 1/5
Title: OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Couchman
Rating: 1/5
This book contains many errors, in text and tests. It does not help you in explaining how Oracle functions. The examples used in this book are too simple to be of any help.Without any experience in Oracle, passing the test with this book alone is very unlikely. I would recommend buying a different book! (if available)
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 like how full of info this book is. There isn't a single TSQL subject that's not covered completely. Everything from great tricks to best practices is in it. And yet the book isn't that physically large - it's just really dense. I've seen books that were twice as long with half the info. I find myself rereading different parts of because they're so loaded with good stuff. Definitely worth the money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server: Planning and Building a High Performance Database
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Robert D. Schneider
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server: Planning and Building a High Performance Database
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Robert D. Schneider
Rating: 5/5
This book builds on a basic understanding of SQL Server, showing real-world scenarios and advice on what to look for to make database application perform optimally.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Instant PHP 4
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Michael Walker, Robert Cox, Neal Anders
Rating: 5/5
Title: Instant PHP 4
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Michael Walker, Robert Cox, Neal Anders
Rating: 5/5
This book has several worth-while projects, including an on-line store shopping cart, a PHP information console, and an on-line address book, and a couple of others. If you already know a little PHP you can get some good examples from the book. If you're wanting learn PHP, look elsewhere. I also found it a bit $$Pricey$$ which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 3/5
Having been a user of SQL*Plus for over 10 years I was hoping to find some answers to more advanced topics rather than the basics. The coverage of how SQL*plus scripts are driven from O/S batch or shell scripts is sorely lacking. This is a rich area not effectively covered in any text that I'm aware of. Several areas don't tell the full story - or fail to highlight subtle differences in syntax (e.g. yy vs. rr in date formatting).Having said all that, I still regularly use this book as a reference and continue to learn from it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 5/5
I have read the whole of this book now -- Brilliant stuff!!! I especially enjoyed the case studies - User Privilege and the one on PHP and WML.There is also a cool WML primer that will put you in focus, but it's not in the book(that's a shame) --However if you will look carefully you can dig it out from Wrox' online P2P site.Outside of that small glitch, i thoroughly gained a lot of great PHP knowledge.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 3/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 3/5
I bought this book because I couldn't find any others in my local bookstores. When I 'browsed' it, it seemed clear enough so I took a chance. Now that I've read all but the last few chapters (and done all the exercises, etc), I feel I would buy it again and, indeed, recommend it with a small qualification or two.Positives:First, it is not the bottom of the heap - far from it. I've read much poorer quality technical books before. I rated it at 3 stars but, if it hadn't claimed to be a test prep book, I would have rated it at 4 stars.Second, it is great for new people. So what if it misses a few of the finer points (even necessary ones?) Within two days of starting with it I was using DTS and replication and getting XML responses back through IIS. I found it very clear to get these services going.Third, I don't mind pictures and this book has quite a few. Nothing like a picture to show you what screen you *should* be looking at.Fourth, other than minor typos, the author is literate. Better than many other books out there.Negatives:First, this is *not* a test prep book. I've taken a number of cert tests (dozens) and I don't feel like I'm even close to ready for testing. However, I do feel a lot more confident about understanding the questions. A lot more.Second, there are some awful mistakes in some of the exercises. All of them are correctable and you have to correct them but it makes you suspicious whenever you start an exercise. For me, that isn't a bad thing. For a complete newbie, it could be a bit distressing.Third, the test banks don't work well. This doesn't make it a '1' in my opinion. I've not seen a test bank in a book that is representative of the real test. However, it does degrade my overall score for the book a little. Like I said when I started, if the book hadn't advertised it was a test prep book, I would have given it a '4'.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
To fully understand this book you need a fairly good grounding in set theory and programming. If you have this background and are looking for a quick into to SQL, this book is excellent. It is a very short book and a very quick read. It is not a SQL reference book. In a few hours it will give you a very good understanding of SQL. Ideal for programmers who need to quickly learn SQL. Not so good for those with a fair amount of SQL experience or those looking for in-depth information.I had to buy a second copy of this book becuase people borrow it so often that I can never find it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server 2.0: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Katherine Wrightson, Kate Wrightson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Apache Server 2.0: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Katherine Wrightson, Kate Wrightson
Rating: 1/5
You be better off reading the man file on apache. The author uses inserts from the configuration file of Apache and does not build on it as if the inserts are sufficient explanation for configuring the program. I am insulted. If you still want to buy this book I have mine for sale in the used section for the fraction of the original cost. This book is a waist of time and money.
