IT programming books related reviews
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
There is something for everyone here. If you are a beginner, you owe it to yourself to read through this book until you get it. The opening chapter is as good an intro to the TSQL language as I've found. If you're an amateur, you'll want to read through this to get on the road to becoming an expert. There's enough code here to earn your Phd in TSQL programming. And if you're an expert, you'll want to research and study this book and the insights it shares. You will not find better TSQL coding techniques and explanations anywhere. This book will take you to the next level into the realm of the gurus.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
If you liked Henderson's first Guru's Guide book you will like this one as well. It has the same tone and same in depth coverage of useful topics.The Data Volumes chapter was a real pleasure to read. The data doubling trick was worth the cost of the book all by itself. We switched to using it in our test suites and they sped up by 50%!The chapter on Automation was also priceless. I love the sp_diffdb proc. I've needed to check two databases for schema differences many times over the years, but never had a tool for doing it. Now I get a free one with this book. That is some kind of value.I also loves the Guru's Guide VSS tool. We use Visual SourceSafe in our shop, so this tool that integrates Query Analyzer with VSS was a godsend.The .NET coverage was really eye-opening. You can tell the guy has definitely been there.If you had the first Guru's Guide book get this one too. You won't be sorry.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Rational Guide to: SQL Server Reporting Services (Rational Guides)
Publisher: Rational Press
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 5/5
This book contains concise and to the point information on Reporting Services. I like the minimal pricing and the easy to understand instructions from the chapters. I was able to get up to speed with Reporting Services in a short time with this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 2/5
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 2/5
This book is definitely a poor read. I got It because I thought the second edition would be a better read. These guys need to learn how to write and organize their thoughts better. There are other books that I'll buy over this one. The trick is to make it simple and have good flow; even the choice for the website (butter*) sucks. This review comes from a guy majoring in computer science.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Louis Davidson, Wrox Author Team
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Louis Davidson, Wrox Author Team
Rating: 4/5
I have been searching for a book that covers both database design theory and outlines theory by practicle examples. This is a book where you will get this! Even better, throughout the book a banking-checkingaccount database CASE is presented, which raises the level of the book (in my opinion) even further. Instead of the always present customer/order or name/address examples you get 'the real thing' here.If you are looking for a theoretical foundation which is not dry at all this is the book to buy!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 4/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 4/5
I don't get it. Every book I pick up on SQL 7 is filled with words, lotsa pages (and this one is even quite useful), and yet something is missing. What's missing is what I can never get enough of: practical examples. Hey, if I knew SQL really well, maybe I wouldn't mind, but I'm often having trouble with things like fancy JOINs, how to send back error strings, and which @@global variables can't be passed as output parameters in stored procedures. There's a lot I don't know real gud. But I gotta get the coding done.So I keep looking for one of these goldmines that doesn't try to explain what a database is, but gives me lots of examples, and a great index, so I can stumble into instances of things done right and wrong, and try to find some help with my many specific problems. This is a wonderful book to read if you have the time, it does give you a better insight into SQL7, it's well written. But if you're like me, we're still looking for that book that we can keep on our desks, next to the aspirin.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
As a SQL Server trainer I am often asked to recommend books, and this is one that's always on the top of my list! It presents a wealth of information in a logical progression of 21 lessons. Spending an hour or two a day with this book will give a solid foundation for adminstering SQL 7 databases.There are several criticisms I think are off base and a few that are unfair. With respect to criticisms about the book's technical accuracy, it's by far one of the most technically accurate. Knowing both the authors personally, I can assure you that both Richard (who happens to work on the SQL Server Team at Microsoft) and Rick are very concerned that they published the most technically accurate book they could. With respect to comments emphasizing a lack of emphasis on developing applications for SQL Server, the cover says the book is targeted towards administrators.You won't learn everything there is know about SQL or SQL Server administration (no one knows everything). You will learn the fundamentals, and more importanly where to look for further information.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Web Sites
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffrey Byrne, Jeffry Byrne
Rating: 1/5
Title: Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Web Sites
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffrey Byrne, Jeffry Byrne
Rating: 1/5
I've been working with SQL Server since version 6.0 and have been building web sites using SQL Serer for 3 years. I reviewed this book for a friend. It's one of the worst technical books I've ever read and I'm shocked it actually made it to print. It's evident the author does not have a firm grasp on even the basics of SQL Server administraion or development.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server 2 Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 5/5
Title: Apache Server 2 Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 5/5
Its really a good book on apache server and it gives insight about installation and administering of apache server. Also its introduction to Fast CGI is really helpfull and gives an introduction to new ways to speed-up the page loading
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL/400 by Example
Publisher: 29th Street Press
Authors: James Coolbaugh
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL/400 by Example
Publisher: 29th Street Press
Authors: James Coolbaugh
Rating: 1/5
This book is too basic and does't serve the purpose even for novice programmers.
