List of programming books reviews starting with F
Finally, a PERL Cookbook for PHP
From Dummy to "Expert" in less than 3 hours
Fear Not, the World of Data Modeling
Feuerstein is The Man
Finally a good PL/SQL book
Finally, a useful Oracle book
Finally, an easy to understand guide for the new DBA
For Beginning and Experienced Programmers
Fantastic and really exam oriented!
Fun, irreverent, and pays for itself in short order...
For those who really need SQL
Finally!!
Fantastic, fulfills a large void in Oracle Documentation
From 0 to 60 in 550 pages
Filled with GREAT examples
Finally, SQL in layman's terms!
For the Site Manager
From a Beginner
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 5/5
I purchased this book to learn how to write some really basic stored procedures, I started to read this book and applied the examples to some SQL tasks at my place of employment, the examples are real world friendly, and describe in detail what they do in SQL and you learn as you go. The authors writing style is concise, informative, and animated. I would recommend this SQL book for anyone who needs to apply a reference for real world SQL programming. A MUST HAVE FOR ALL SQL DEVELOPERS !!
Title: Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
One of the few puzzle books for IRM types. Joe's book is based on his columns in the now defunct Database Programming and Design magazine. Overall this is an excellent book if you work with SQL on a daily basis. I'd give it a 5 rating, but it's overdue for an update due to the fact that many, including Joe himself, have developed even better answers for the puzzles.This is not an introductory text -- you should have not only a knowlege of SQL but some real world experience developing and deploying SQL based applications.To get the most out of this book, make sure you make an attempt to solve the puzzles before reading the 'answers'.
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 5/5
It's my first PHP book and I think it's the last one.I don't want anymore. This book show deep technical detail about PHP.The concept is well illustrated by pictures and the content not only show you how to programming PHP but it also show you how to apply PHP in real life such as using it with Database, integrating with XML, making e-commerce shopping cart.,etc. I like it.
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 3/5
I was disappointed after I bought and read this book. Too many people gave it a five star. I will give this one 3.5 but this is not a choice in the drop-down box. SQL Server system tables and system stored procedures are very important. This books doesn't give me much information. Microsoft might not want DBAs and developers to really know the inside of SQL Server 7.0. OLAP and Data Warehousing are also two very important areas. I can't find these topics in the content. MSDN library is a much better resource for writing sql statements or queries. You will know the syntax and more examples. Overall, this is still a good book.
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
Finally good book on the market for stored procedures. This book "shoots" directly at the hart of problem. Developers need tips and advanced technics, and you have it here. I recommend this book for every professional who want to be the best in DB programming. Try it, you'll find for long time searched solutions, I suppose.RegardsNikola

