List of programming books reviews starting with C
Can't be beat
clear and easy to understand
Concise and Useful Reference
corrected URL for online book
Comprehensive PHP
Concise, Clear and well organized
Cooking with Oracle Cookbook
Can PHP be a language for pofessional developers? Yes!
Code, code, and more code!!!
Could be the most important security book you read this year
Coffee, Keyboard, Mouse, Big Red PHP Book.
Concise and to the point
Consice and Comprehensive at That
Consise best-practices for date-time handling.
can be easily understood
Connor McDonald is a true expert on Oracle
Comprehensive guide to building database driven Applications
Classic SQL tips, reference, and understanding
Currently the best SQL 7.0 book on the market..
Title: Oracle Utilities: Using Hidden Programs, Import/Export, SQL*Loader, Oradebug, Dbverify, Tkprof and More
Publisher: Rampant TechPress
Authors: Dave Moore
Rating: 5/5
Oracle Utilities is a useful book for me. The table at the beginning of the book was worth the price alone, since it listed all executables and packages, what they did, and which version of Oracle they were available in. I have to admit that I was unaware of many of them listed in the book (orakill, oradim, maxem, autotrace). The author also covers well known utilities (tkprof / imp / exp) but for these concentrates on practical usage instead of what they do.
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
T-sql coding is not easy. It's not easy to get right. I teach classes and see people get it wrong almost everyday. This book is the first I've seen to show how to write code that is both fast and robust, that is readable as well as tunable. You will not find a better selection of top-notch code and expert commentary on T-sql than what you find in this book. I definitely recommend it.
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
This book is useful if you are unexperienced with PHP and need to learn but not for go beyond. I found some sintax mistakes in the examples and the order of every chapter is not so logical, but anyway I think this is a book with good concepts for any PHP Programmer.
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Beginners: Don't be scared off by the 'Professional' in the title! This is the best book available because it actually teaches SQL programming in a few chapters (and that's all it SHOULD take).Intermediates: This book is your best bet to develop for SQL Server. Go beyond the basics and learn what you've been missing. (IMPORTANT: not much about administration is covered, but Robert makes it very clear that that is not his goal.)Professionals: Once you get past Chapter 8 (Normalization), you'll be in the territory you got the book for: SPROCs, extended stored procedures, security, data transformation, English Query... the list goes on.The great thing about all of this is that the book reads like a textbook (for beginners) but has great referential information (for professionals). I have come across very few, if any books that are able to appeal to this broad of an audience.
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
i bought this book knowing nothing about php and it took me from ground 0 to writing pretty complex apps using php and mysql - i know it will serve as a great reference book for years to come. thanks!

