IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
As a first time user of SQL 2000, this book has been a wonderful tool for myself and my co-workers. We support and manage a complex database management application and SQL Developer's Guide has provided us with clear examples and answers to some very complicated questions. It is clearly written and well organized. It is a great value and anyone working on SQL 2000 should own one!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Scripting XML and WMI for Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2000: Professional Developer's Guide
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Tobias Martinsson
Rating: 4/5
Title: Scripting XML and WMI for Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2000: Professional Developer's Guide
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Tobias Martinsson
Rating: 4/5
This is one most interestingly targeted books you'll find on SQL Server 2000 yet. It is a straight-forward approach to two topics -- XML and WMI -- that have yet to get much helpful documentation. I've found this book good overall, but like the Author's other book "ActivePerl with ASP and ADO," the depth of some of the materal is "no-frills." I think this book makes a great complement to some other XML and SQL Server titles because it ties these topics together in one neat, easy and quick to read package. If you need depth, consider combining this with other related titles.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 2/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 2/5
This is a great book for the new and expert in PHP. I have ask for a customer help on the publisher but 2 months later, im still wating for there answer.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Data Warehousing With Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Technical Reference (Microsoft Technical Reference)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Jake Sturm
Rating: 1/5
Title: Data Warehousing With Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Technical Reference (Microsoft Technical Reference)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Jake Sturm
Rating: 1/5
This is an excellent book. It has three detailed chapters on MDX, good descriptions on how to build data warehouses with SQL 7, a discussion on DTS, and includes an introductory chapter on OLAP for those not familiar with it. Great chapter on optimizing a SQL DW, too. My only negative comment is that I found chapter 9 wasn't that useful, and read it after I read the other chapters. I also skipped the code sample in the appendix. Everything else in the book is good. I highly recommend the book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
The best yet I have read on SQL server.The author strings you along making you consume pages without knowing it. He is very knowledgeable hightlighting good and bad practices and fundamental points critical to the survival of the server.
The volume should not discourage you it is full of meat
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
If the SQL Svr 7 book didn't exist, this would be a pretty good book. As it is, though its to much like it. Basically if you have the 7 book, you don't need this one. As other people have pointed out the two are very, very similar. But the book is still a good read if you don't have the version 7 book, its just to bad that there isn't more about SQL Svr 2000 in this one (like xml for example).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 5/5
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 5/5
When I picked this book up, I thought I knew TSQL. And, as Moreau and Ben-Gan presented the TSQL, I realized that I had barely scratched the surface. Many of their examples begin with the same solution that I would have thought up on my own but they then take that solution and show a better way to accomplish the same task. Not only do they show you the better way but they explain why it works in a manner that is concise and understandable.I often recommend this book to programmers who are learning TSQL because it helps them gain the knowledge they need to be able to use TSQL far more effectively than you get from the isolated examples in Books On Line (BOL).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov
Rating: 5/5
I was to choose between "SQL Complete" and this book. I ended up buying both, and now "SQL Complete" goes right back to the store :)The SQL Bible offers comprehensive coverage not only SQL standard, but all its major dialects: kinda important when you need to get a job done in the real world. Would be even better if SQL Server 2000 evaluation was included...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
Matt Review - Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development - Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green, Bruno Mairlot - GlasshausI am stunned. Real deer in the headlights stuff here. I have gone through so many books in the years I have been in the business and edited about 12 of them. This has to be the best, I mean the VERY best book I have ever seen dealing with databases and web programming. If I had had this book in 1996, I would have *owned* that damned sock puppet and half the other dot coms as well. This is a MUST have book not just for PHP but for any other application server because of the excellent treatment of SQL and how to build a complex application in Dreamweaver MX. In fact, I would recommend this book and an install of PHP and MySQL for any developer to prototype their site regardless of the final application server or database you plan to use.On to the meat.The good...The good stuff starts early and goes on for the whole dang book. There is a great overview of PHP (including an explanation of the original name for PHP, Personal Home Page Tools) and MySql that is enough to get a good picture of why to use the tools together. The first chapter also walks you trough the setup of PHP simply and correctly. I had to reformat this machine and had not reinstalled PHP before reading this book and it was a perfect reference to install and I remember it being a lot harder when I went through the instructions at the PHP.net site where I got PHP in the first place. The chapter on MySQL was as good as the PHP install instructions. It is followed by a good overview of setting up a site in DMX so that by the end of Chapter 2, you are ready to get to work and have done a real job of setting up your app server, database, and the connections to them in Dreamweaver MX. This is about 75 pages of the 350 page book. A real investment in getting you started well.You have built a site before or you wouldn't be looking at a book like this, but have you really *planned* a site? Not to fear if you haven't you are going to get a good overview of that as well. Tim Green, the author of this chapter covers good design and planning of the sample site, a hotel, using flowcharts and modular design. There is also a detailed explanation of the tables that you need to create for the site and how they relate to one another. This discussion is VERY useful regardless of the app server and database you are using. The techniques here are very easy to transfer even if some of the details are different than they would be in other databases. The chapter on manipulating the database, Chapter 6 shows through some excellent examples how to use a lot of the built in features of DMX, not only covering the usual add, update, show records, but using showif commands in detail. Something that I see users ask about often.The Advanced SQL Usage chapter is the best in the book though. Bruno Mairlot goes through SQL in a practical sort of way, showing examples and giving reasons of why you do things. This is a real gem. This chapter alone is worth the price of admission. I think that with this and the Learn SQL in Ten Minutes book that I swear by, you are going to have all the tools that you need to do almost anything.The remainder of the book covers hand coding in DMX, tag libraries, debugging your web app, and a number of other issues that are not well covered everywhere else. The one remaining gem in the book is the coverage in Chapter 11 of the Server Behavior Builder. Given that Dreamweaver MX does not have the breadth of functions for PHP, that is does for ColdFusion or ASP.Net, this is a really important chapter. For the user of other server models, it is still a great way to get your feet wet with this tool.The bad...Short section here. I tried to find things I don't like about the book and I couldn't. The worst that I can say is that the pages are pretty full and I would have liked a little more whitespace to take notes. Pretty banal point really. Face it, there really is nothing bad here.(It would be nice to have a CD, but the code is available at the glasshaus site.) The review... What can I say. This is THE book. I am going to go through this again to go over some of the Advanced SQL over the weekend. This book is a must have if you are doing dynamic sites and a must-must have if you are doing PHP and MySQL.10 out of 10 Matts.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 4: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: William McCarty
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP 4: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: William McCarty
Rating: 5/5
Don't waste your moneyI bought this book after reading the reviews here and my experience with one of their other books (A Beginners Guide Flash MX, this was a very good book). I have had nothing but a headache trying to get the code to work from chapter 4 and 5. I've given up and don't recommend this book to anybody until the code is debugged. I feel I shouldn't have to go to PHP sites to get help in debugging code. Too bad from the reviews it looked promising but alas buy another book on introductory PHP.
