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Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Dusan Petkovic
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Dusan Petkovic
Rating: 5/5
Since I had no background with SQL Server I carefully chose a beginners guide and am very pleased with this one. I was able to understand all but 2 or 3 short segments of the material and I anticipate using this book as a syntax reference later on. The author's background with databases was evident without being overwhelming. There were at least a dozen mislabeled figures or tables that could be misleading and the first two thirds of the book are heavy going as Transact-SQL is covered but I found the writing consistently accessible. The chapters on Data Warehouses and Data Marts were too sketchy to be of much value but the main point of the book was handily accomplished - the basics of building and managing SQL Server 7 databases. I am reading the MS Press self study guides currently and am glad I started where I did.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: E. Guide Dinosaur (Dk Google E.Guides)
Publisher: DK Publishing
Authors: Dougal Dixon, John Malam
Rating: 3/5
Title: E. Guide Dinosaur (Dk Google E.Guides)
Publisher: DK Publishing
Authors: Dougal Dixon, John Malam
Rating: 3/5
Homework takes on a new meaning when you get to go online to research topics. DK and Google are producing books to make homework a journey into discovery. Information springs to life in color pictures, 3-D models and maps.
This book has a website dedicated to the topic of Dinosaurs. The links are age-appropriate and children can also download images or do additional research.
Some of the topics in this book include:
Body Fossils
Examining Footprints
Feeding
Dinosaurs on Display
Turning to Stone
Dinosaur Habitats
Children can see what a dinosaur looked like inside an egg or how a Baryonx looked while playfully catching fish with its claws. This book also answers questions like:
How did parents care for the young dinosaurs?
Was the Tyrannosaurus a hunter or scavenger?
Did Dinosaurs travel in herds?
How are Dinosaur bones collected in the field?
What does a Jurassic shark look like?
The Elasmosaurus is a fascinating sea giant and looks rather playful except for the sharp teeth. A few pages are given to creatures of the air and sea, but most of the book focuses on dinosaurs that peacefully roamed the earth nibbling on a shrub here or there. Then you have the Giganotosaurus that hunted by ambush.
The variety in this book will fascinate children and you can learn about everything from the size of a dinosaur's brain to the way a computer can manipulate an image to show what a fossil looked like before it became deformed and preserved.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Jeffrey Byrne
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCSE System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Jeffrey Byrne
Rating: 2/5
I like the structure and format of this book (that's the 2 stars for). This book is based on the bata version the the SQL Server, a lot of materials were smiliar to sQL SERVER 6.5 I suggest all of you hold off for their revised edition.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 4 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Blake Schwendiman
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP 4 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Blake Schwendiman
Rating: 1/5
Actually, this is a good book (not for novice). It covers more advanced topic needed for real life projects. But, I don't like the function reference part (it takes a REALLY lot of pages). I don't think it has any advantages. I hope the publisher will reprint it without the function reference part.Overall: This is a good book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Essence of SQL : A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: David Rozenshtein
Rating: 5/5
I have been teaching computer topics for a little over 5 years. I find that the easiest things for beginners to grasp is the syntax, or "how to write the code". With a language like SQL that is so concise the real hurdle most people run into is "how do I form the question?" You can learn how to write a simple select statement in a few minutes. This book discusses the more advanced topic of how to take English questions and convert them to SQL queries.It is an essay on how to use SQL to ask questions with the language. How do I ask a type 2 query (simple sub-queries) or a Type 3 query (correlated sub-queries) or how do I even know what kind of question am I asking.I use this book in my SQL course and I bring it out after we have slogged through all the syntax.Ask someone who has just finished a "Learn SQL in 21 days" type book and they can tell you how to write a correlated sub-query. Ask them how do I write an SQL statement that finds only those students who have taken CS120 and CS240 but no other class and hear the roaring silence.That is what this book does. It discusses how to ask the questions, once you know the language.
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
Never programmed before? Want to learn a fairly easy scripting language? If you said "Yes" then this book is definately for you. Very clear and concise instructions. I look forward to the advanced book coming out soon. Andy
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
This is a great book for giving a novice SQL 7 user a detailed understanding of how SQL 7 really works. While not billed as an exam prep guide, this text was absolutely key to getting me past 70-29. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to learn SQL or wants to attain their MCDBA.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 5/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 5/5
This book is an excellent introduction to the PHP scripting language, which is one of the most popular ways to add dynamic content to the web; PHP seems to be displacing Perl on Unix and ASP on Microsoft platforms for this purpose. PHP is suitable for low to medium traffic sites, and is said to be faster than either Perl or ASP. Because it's an interpreted language, it's not as fast as JSP or natively compiled cgis, but few sites need the level of speed or the complexity that comes with those technologies."Programming PHP" does an excellent job of teaching the language to those with a little bit of software background, for example in Perl or C. The first few chapters quickly demonstrate what can be done with the language and document the language basics, which, while C-like, have a few differences that are important to be aware of. The book is clear enough that it may be useful to a savvy person with no computer language background.The rest of the chapters cover specific issues in more detail. There are chapters both on more involved language features, like PHP's treatment of strings, arrays, and objects, and on applications of the language, such as using databases with PHP and how best to handle web site security issues in a PHP based site. These chapters are independent of each other, so the reader can focus on various issues as they come up - though a few, like the security chapter and the application techniques chapter, are worth reading earlier if you have time, as they will help you set up your web site scripts so as to prevent headaches later on.The text has many examples, which are well designed to succinctly document language features. These examples seem to be largely accurate and bug free. It may help that one of the authors, Rasmus Lerdorf, is the original creator of PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 4/5
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 4/5
I liked this book a lot '- succinct style and LOTS of medium size examples. A lot better than many of the others on the market.In particular I like the way that the topics follow on and are clearly more than just a collection of essays (which I have found the Wrox books can have a tendency to be).Tom
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf
Rating: 5/5
A really complete pocket tutorial. A good way to quickly lookup syntax, functions and the operation of PHP itself. The book starts with an introduction/reminder to PHP and actually very useable examples that you can put to use right away. An excellent book by Rasmus Lerdorf, one of the key developers of PHP.
