IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
I AM A ENGINEERING THAT IS LOOKING TO GET INTO THE IT INDUSTRY (DBMS PRODUCTS). SO I DECIDED TO TEACH MY SELF SQL. I PURCHASED A COUPLE OF OTHER BOOKS. THIS BOOK IS BY FAR THE BEST. THE FORMAT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND. THE SAMPLE PROBLEMS AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER ARE PRACTICAL. ANYONE WHO WISHES TO LEARN SQL SHOULD BY THIS BOOK. I WISH HE WOULD WRITE A BOOK ON PL/SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 1/5
I have bought or looked at the other books, Core PHP, PHP Essentials, and several others. This is the BEST one of them all there is no doubt. Get this book, go through it and you will be up and running in no time
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 2/5
I wish I had read the other reviews prior to reading this book, because they are right. This book had me thinking I was ready for the exam, when I was actually far from it.To be fair, this is a decent "Intro to SQL", with plenty of hands on exercises. You do need to be able to trouble shoot however, because some of the examples won't work as written.I feel I'm better off having read this book than I was before I read it, but sad to say, I failed the 70-228 exam. And that's after getting a 98% on the "Final Exam" included with the book.Oh well, I guess I'll have to find another exam prep book and keep working with SQL. It least it's good to know the exam isn't a cake-walk, and certifications can still mean something.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Anthony T. Mann
Rating: 4/5
I already knew some Access but knew virtually no SQL 7.0. This book was great for a beginner like me. I think I now know enough to be dangerous. The concepts were explained concisely and simply. I think I could tackle a hardcore SQL 7 book and understand it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
This book blew me away. I have never seen anything like it. The tour through the Windows OS is the best I have seen. It provided just what I needed to understand the rest of the book.
I am not a developer by trade but this book made me feel like it. I began to understand how Sql is designed as only someone who had written it could. I still consider myself a beginner developer but I'm not a beginner with Sql anymore.
The SQL-Xml exposition is a book of its own. Over 100 pages of the deepest, best info you could hope for. SAme thing for DTS, replication, Notification Svcs and several others.
I really liked the engine internals. I use this info nearly every day in my day job supporting Sql. You can't go wrong with this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
I have read several books on PHP and this is the best. It presents ideas clearly, and the authors have a good sense of what is appropriate in large web site design. I had read Professional PHP Programming 1/e, which I liked for its clear layout of the PHP language, but I needed PHP 4. In the bookstore, PHP Black Book looked good, because it covered topics (sablotron) that others did not. However, Black Book was so poorly written that had I not known the basics of PHP, I would not have learned them there. So I read this book. On PHP it is clear. It is the best explanation of PHP objects I have found. It's discussion of PHP software engineering is the best that I have found. It's case studies are the most complete that I have found.As far as MySQL, it is okay. Not bad. Get Kofler's MySQL for a better reference to MySQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Database 10g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Price, Jason Price, McGraw-Hill
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Database 10g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Price, Jason Price, McGraw-Hill
Rating: 5/5
I must write a review to counter the previous reviewer's incorrect comments! I've had this book four weeks and run through all the examples, and they all work.All the technical descriptions in the book are right on, too. I had no problems understanding the advanced material on Oracle 10g, which covered the right areas on SQL and PL/SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
While the book was a little more elementary than I had hoped, it was still a very good introduction to the subject, and it certainly didn't hurt me any to review the underlying database theory. Nearly every chapter had stuff that would have saved me considerable work if I had just read the book two months earlier...
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Guide to Sybase and SQL Server
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: McGoveran D., C.J. Date
Rating: 4/5
Title: Guide to Sybase and SQL Server
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: McGoveran D., C.J. Date
Rating: 4/5
Good one for reference as well as to understand basics of Sybase.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
This book was great! I have many many thick books on the subject but this stands out. I learn well by scanning through practical projects and that's this book's strong point. I can't vouch for the PHP tutorials (I learned PHP earlier) but the MySQL interaction is great. I keep this right by the 'puter and use it all the time as reference!
