IT programming books related reviews
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
This is THE best book for those who want to know all about SQL Server 7.0. I've read Ron's book on SQL Server 6.5, and although the 7.0 book doesn't bring the reader much new stuff, it's still a great book. It's only weakness is that it's not really any good as a refence. Fx. there's no explanation of backup-techniques. The strength of this book is it's level of insight into the nitty-gritty details of the product, which makes it a must-have for everybody who, like me, is madly in love with SQL Server.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Notes from the Field (Notes from the Field)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 3/5
Title: Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Notes from the Field (Notes from the Field)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 3/5
It was helpfull when stuck with prblem
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Data Warehousing with SQL Server 7.0 and OLAP Services
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Data Warehousing with SQL Server 7.0 and OLAP Services
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 5/5
I was hesitant to buy this book at first when I read some of the reviews online. However, when I started to look at it in the book store I found that it is the book that the book was very nicely written and structured. It is written for someone who does not have a background in data warehousing and OLAP, but yet, provides a great deal of knowledge by the time you finish reading it. I found that the book satisfies my needs. I have been using this book as a reference for Microsfot OLAP Services for the last three months and it helped me with a couple of projects already. For those who do not like the book, please keep in mind that if it does not satisfy your particular need, it does not mean that it is not a good book that can help others.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 2/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 2/5
I have no doubt that the authors know Transact-SQL very well. The problem is, they inexplicably focus on old versions of it in this book. SQL 7 is practically omitted from this book entirely. There's no coverage of fulltext searching. No coverage of SELECT TOP or the statistical aggregate functions. No coverage of automation, the BULK INSERT command, or the many other commands that were new or that changed significantly in version 7.0. This is simply inexcusable, and I recommend you skip this book because of it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern
Rating: 5/5
Title: Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern
Rating: 5/5
This book is a pleasure to read. It provides information on web development on the Apache/Perl platform in a very accessible and entertaining form without being dumbed down. It convinced me that Apache/Perl was clearly the correct platform for my projects, where power and felxibility take precedence over performance i.e. who cares if IIS/NT is really a better high volume platform as M$ consistently claim.In addition, the book provides insights into the world of web servers and HTTP, examples of real problems and how they can be solved and first class examples of readable yet succint Perl code.I would recommend reading Randal Schwarz's Perl columns in for more real world applications.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Mastering SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
Title: Mastering SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
I bought this book 3 weeks ago and must say it covers everything in great detail. I would recommend it to MS exam 70-029 candidates, as well.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 2/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 2/5
This is old version 7.0 material. It's all command line driven ideas and magazine level tricks for using a query language like a real programming language, only it doesn't fly in production. This book is for novices only. Any enterprise programmer would want to steer clear of this inaptly named book. I give it two stars for the sharpening of t-sql query writing.
One can get caught up in real programming many times and miss the forest for the trees. This book does at least show times a query might work as well as real code.
2 stars.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Administrator's Guidebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Carl H. Speshock
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Administrator's Guidebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Carl H. Speshock
Rating: 4/5
The book is refreshing to read about the many different roles that a productive DBA needs to be knowledgeable with and to become efficient in. Many technical books go into great effort about the SQL Server technology, which I feel you can more info via MSDN, magazines, and conferences. But, no one goes into the complete role. Many DBAs are not proficient in data modeling, selecting hardware for database servers, creating support documentation, and understanding the OS and network settings that are effective and beneficial for a database server. This book goes into all of this.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Hugh E. Williams
Rating: 5/5
Web Database Applications by Hugh E. Williams (Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science & IT, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) and David Lane (Software Engineer and IT Manager, Multimedia Database Systems Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) is a solid and accessible resource for web programmers who seek to create powerful, practical, and useful web database applications. Individual chapters address a brief overview of PHP and MySQL, shopping carts, security features, effective querying, and much more. Sample code, black-and-white screenshots, and straightforward instructional text make Web Database Applications a first-class reference and a highly recommended instructional guide.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Publisher: Syngress
Authors: Johnny Long
Rating: 4/5
Title: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Publisher: Syngress
Authors: Johnny Long
Rating: 4/5
I was impressed with this book.It should be considered a "must"
read for security professionals,network and sysadmins,and anybody
who has a personal or business web page.Anybody who uses Google
could benefit from reading it.I thought I was a pretty good
Googler before I read this book,but I was learning new things by
the second chapter.You'll definitely see Google in a whole new
light after finishing it.This book will get you thinking
"outside the globe".
Crackers know this stuff.Shouldn't you?
Although I know the author doesn't condone it,
if you are a multi-media type,you can uninstall those spyware
infested p2p apps and buy a bigger hard drive.You'll need it.
I read a ton of network security books each year.This one made
the top three,IMO.
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