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
I've read every SQL Server book I could get my hands on and none compare to this one. The sheer clarity of the text, the ind-depth explanations, the friendly prose -- all combine to produce the best book available on SQL Server.Equally as amazing is the usefulness of the sample code. I don't know about you, but sample code from most of the books I've found tends to be more academic than practical. In other words, though it helps explain some important point, it's not code you could or would use in the real wrold. That's not true with this book. Everything - from the fulltext search examples, to the Automation and Administrative code - is good stuff. I used lots of it in my job as-is. So, you get a double value here. You get a great book, and along with it, a great T-SQL code library. They ought to sell the CD separately.Last but not least - I love the T-SQL editor that's included with the book. It's a freebie tool (they're not hawking a product here) that's much more powerful and easy to use than Query Analyzer. So, you get a triple value.All told, this is one heckuva book (and software package). Knowing what I know now, if I was told I had to get rid of all my SQL Server books except one, this is the one I'd keep.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 2/5
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 2/5
Unlike Whitehorn this author clearly understands MDX. MDX semantics are complex and mudled but he tries to explain them. However, the result is still as not clear as it could be. What does the filter expression *really* mean...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
This is the top book for SQL 2000 administration. Mr. Knight has excelled in putting together a book that is sensible, readable, and highly critical for day-to-day administration of SQL Server 2000. Folks are always asking for my opinion on a book to help them get over some of the advanced tasks of SQL Server. This is it! It goes a long way answering those questions that you ask yourself everyday. Instead of hunting on the Internet every time you need a solution, carry this book with you.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 3/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 3/5
This is an above average book, but the author gives as much importance to VBSQL as it does to RDO and DAO and does not discuss ADO, the data access model of the future. Very little change from the 4th edition that talked about Visual Basic 4.0. Most of the material in this book will be outdated by the end of the year
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 2000 Design Study Guide (Exam 70-229)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Marc Israel, J. Steven Jones, Marc Israel, Steve Jones
Rating: 4/5
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 2000 Design Study Guide (Exam 70-229)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Marc Israel, J. Steven Jones, Marc Israel, Steve Jones
Rating: 4/5
If you are totally lost and do not know where to start when studying for 229, this book is a good place to start. However, there are many holes in the book that you need to be aware of. Supplement this with reading of BOL or taking the Transcenders. If you rely totally on this book, you would be in for a shock in the exam. It covers at best 80% of the material.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 4/5
Title: Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 4/5
This book is not for beginners or people with little SQL knowledge. It helps to enhance your methodical approach for problem solving.It needs some more examples so that people with little knowledge of SQL can grasp it . I haven't seen any book comparable to this one for learning different techniques of writing tuned queries which seem to be very complicated in first approach.. Make sure you are not buying it to learn syntax
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
This book quickly got me to the point that I felt comfortable experimenting on my own. I have been doing VB and C programming for several years, having little web programming experience. This book was perfect to help me get familiar with the syntax and concepts of PHP and start putting up data-driven pages.The only specific problem I had with the code samples was that by default register_globals was set to off in the php.ini file of PHP4. I believe this caused a minor problem for one of the form handling examples.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Seo a'Chroit Ruadh
Publisher: Child's Play International Ltd
Authors: Child's Play
Rating: 5/5
Title: Seo a'Chroit Ruadh
Publisher: Child's Play International Ltd
Authors: Child's Play
Rating: 5/5
This is a terriffic book for use in the music classroom, and at home. As a book that can be either sung or read: it is versatile. It's large size and colorful illustrations draw kids attention. I have personally found it to be very effective with my kindergarten through third grade students. I highly reccommend it to anyone looking for a good book for younger kids that can be sung or read!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Very useful in so many ways. Well written and easy to read. Lots of examples for real world situations. Superb! Kalen Delaney has a wonderful writing style. Check out her articles in SQL Server Magazine.
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
While flipping through this book for the first time I said "Oh My God!" no less than 10 times. That's how great this book is. It features the code for a functional shopping cart, message board, search engine, etc. Included on the CD is all the code and Linux and Win distributions of MySQL and PHP4 which is helpful if you still use a 56K modem. All the code and discussions are clear and easy to follow. My favorite part is a small example on dynamically creating/editing rich text files on the fly, which I am using as the basis for a project at work to create RTF Microsoft Word like documents through a web based interface. This book is simply the best, hands down.
