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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: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
The intro to XML in this book is the best one I've seen. In one chapter I went from not knowing anything about XML to how to build some pretty complex documents and style sheets. I appreciate the thought that went into including the intro. Although it is not about SQLXML specifically it helps you understand the SQLXML chapters later in the book.The SQLXML chapters build on the earlier XML info and helped me get going with SQL Server's XML features. I was especially fond of the templates coverage. These are pretty cool and Henderson explains them in terms anyone could understand.Something that was also great to read was the .Net chapter. It convinced me that I needed to get into this more than I have.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Complete SQL Server 7 Training Course, The
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Steve Correia, John Deep
Rating: 4/5
Title: Complete SQL Server 7 Training Course, The
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Steve Correia, John Deep
Rating: 4/5
I have not had much experience with SQL Server (as an administrator). Also I was not aware of some tricks defined in this book. Moreover I learnt about the various fancy joins and how to use them.GOOD book for beginners to intermediate readers!!
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: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I have over ten years of experience in the database profession. I bought all three of Henderson's books a few months ago and have been studying them ever since. This book was the third book I have bought to try to learn how to use XML with Sql Server. The other two are Malcom's book and Viera's general Sql Server programming book. Neither of those other two books covers Sql-Xml in the depth that this book does. Neither provides the kind of expert advice I have come to expect in these Guru Guides. And neither provides solutions to common problems you run into when building production Sql-Xml applications. This book gives you all of that and more.What I really like about the book is the way it covers everything from start to finish on XML. It starts off wtih a chapter on the XML language itself. For those who don't already know the language, this is a great start. I haven't seen a more concise intro to the language itself. The next chapters cover all of the Sql-Xml pieces one by one. There must be hundreds of sample XML documents and Sql-Xml queries. Every feature - FOR XML, sp_xmlpreparedocument, templates, XML bulk load, HTTP queries, style sheets, etc., is covered in detail. Approximately a third of the book is dedicated to covering these subjects. The chapters on Sql-Xml in this book are worth their weight in gold.I also like how the book builds on the first Guru Guide for Transact-Sql. Take the Undocumented features chapter... It adds to the wealth of undocumented features discussed in the Transact-Sql book. Rather than merely repeating this info, I found a whole host of new undocumented features and tools discussed. Worth the cost alone.Couldn't give this a higher recommendation. If you need to learn what the experts know about Sql-Xml in Sql Server this is the right book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 4/5
Title: Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
Rating: 4/5
I liked the way the book answered some of my questions. I followed the steps for making a secure server using the newer version of Apache, and it didn't work... That was the main reason for me buying the book, so that was the only reason I didn't rate it a 10
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 1/5
This book has the wrong title, it should be called "SQL Server 2000 Basics". The word 'programming' should definitely be taken away from the title as only about 1/3 of the book deals with programming, in just the most basic way. This book is just an intro to SQL Server, nothing too detailed. For someone that knows nothing about SQL Server, you will learn the basics here, but you will need to buy other books to get the details.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
O'Reilly publishes good reference books. I always look for one of their books first when I am looking for a book in a given subject area. No one book in their Oracle series has it all, though. Each book covers it's subject area in depth...just make sure you get the right book! If you like the "Whatever For Dummies" kind of books, then O'Reilly books aren't for you. My only knock is that there are more books in the Oracle series than is really necessary...marketing at it's worst! Some of the seperate PL/SQL related books should have been combined into one volume.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent book that covers just about everything you'll need to know to get the most out of Apache. It's much more accomplished and up to date than the O'Reilly book.Everything from advanced Apache build options to implementing virtual hosts, cgi and dynamic content (including php3) to performance and monitoring are covered in a detailed yet easy to digest way. There's a good chapter on security which covers authentication as well as server security in good depth.The author makes little attempt to cover Apache running under Windows, though this is explained in the first chapter. However, if you can get Apache up and running on a Windows machine without help, the book will still be of enormous use.My only criticism is that Wrox insist on putting moody pictures of their authors on the front cover of their books. Why couldn't he at least smile?
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 5/5
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 5/5
i don't know why people here complains about lack of solutions. what's about me, i've found many useful tips & solutions inside that book. especially how to use virtual cubes and make them really 'virtual' with morphing underlying dimensions and measures extremely with mdx. more, these methods work well in the real world.
i think it's worth to spend money for that book. definitely it helped me a lot with mdx and cubes' implementation.
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
This book is beyond fantastic. Its great for DBA's and developers alike. It reminds me a lot of Joe Celko's book. Theres a certain genius to it.The missing values chapter, the DDL and DML chapters, the statistics chapters, and the undocumented chapter are my favorites. What I really like is that Henderson teaches the Transact-SQL like a real programming language. You get to learn at the feet of a master programmer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 24seven
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Matt Bridges, Victor Isakov
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 24seven
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Matt Bridges, Victor Isakov
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent book. It clearly explains 'small' things like Error 1205, fill factor, replication server upgrading order, fixing of SPs that modify the system tables after upgrading, the importance of IPC$ as regarding to the client connections, and so on. Last night I was sitting in Barnes & Nobles, juggling all the MS-SQL7 administration books I could find. It is the cheapest, smallest of all (well, '... for Dummies' doesn't really count for my purpose), yet it is the only one that answers all my test questions. In my opinion, the only other way to get a good feeling on SQL7 is to read through all of the Books Online. How you can manage the thousands of pages is one problem though. I wouldn't even I do think I could. I am in the process of upgrading my MCSE to MCSE+I, and I am sure this book is all I need for now. However, here's an advise to my fellow SQL newcomers: I don't think it will really hurt if, in addition, you actually CAN install, upgrade, configure, backup, restore a few SQL7 servers ... AND know NT well. All in all, this is an excellent book for real-life administration and MS certification test.
