IT programming books related reviews
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
I can really recommend this book if you know PHP and need a fast and simple way to look up a function or something else.. Easy to find very thing in the book and i would like to see the next version of this book for PHP 4 when that will be released!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus : The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus : The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
The glories of the command line. SQLPlus [I am not going to write that irritating asterix] is an acknowledgment of the reality that for many large computer programs and operating systems, a command line utility is vital. The book explains this for the specific instance of hooking to Oracle's database. It is meant as a definitive reference. Showing every command, often accompanied by example code.
For an Oracle DBA, a good acquaintance with SQLPlus is probably mandatory. From the book, you can see how to quickly interrogate the database and get results in various useful paginated formats. Plus, and vitally, you can see how to build script files that can be run, where these files encode your experience in amassing customised sequences of commands specific to your needs. Exactly analogous to batch files in most operating systems, and just as useful.
Along those lines, SQLPlus is conceptually not that hard. When using Oracle, it is often far more important, and harder, to design optimal tables for a given problem.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Instant Reference
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Martin Gruber, Martin Gruber
Rating: 1/5
A SQL "instant reference" of syntax, etc., is a great idea. Unfortunately, this book is SO FULL of errors, that as a SQL DBA, I got tired of red-lining errors in the book and correcting them!! It sits gathering dust on my bookshelf. Professionals should stick to Joe Celko.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
I bought this book because there's only a few PHP book outthere, and the result is .......REGRET! This book definitely notworth $ ,it doesn't look like a textbook nor a manual, poorly organize, feel like copy and paste, very disappointed.
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 loved this book. I loved the fact that there's no filler material. I loved all the technical info. I loved Henderson's conversational style of writing. Clearly, he has worked in the trenches for a while. He goes into every nitch of the language and draws out things you'd never think of. The Statistics chapter was especially good. So was the Full-text Searching chapter. The Automation chapter was great too. The book is simply chalk full of useful info. Can't give it a higher recommendation.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Anthology
Publisher: SitePoint
Authors: Harry Fuecks
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Anthology
Publisher: SitePoint
Authors: Harry Fuecks
Rating: 5/5
With so many books on the market instructing users on dummy approaches to just about everything, it is good to see that Sitepoint has raised the bar, once again, in the technical instruction arena. In continuing the legacy established with "Build Your Own Website Using PHP & MySQL" and "HTML Utopia:Designing Without Tables Using CSS", they have taken a
complex and oft misunderstood approach to coding and presented PHP in a dymystified way that is easy to understand, exciting to conceptualize and practical in application. Harry Fuecks brings a great deal of experience and leadership to Sitepoint, giving the users a way to take linear procedural code and turn it into reusable objects for easier coding. These books will sit on my "favorites" shelf within arms reach of my computer for a long time to come. Kudos, Sitepoint, on yet another stellar release.
~Aaron Brazell, Emmense Technologies
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
This book covers nearly every aspect of SQL Server 7 that could be relevant to the developer. Sections on SQL Server's architecture and administration, backup, security, replication, and other DBA aspects, comprise the first part of the book. The remainder of the book is geared towards the development aspect, rather than the administrative aspect. The section on T-SQL is very good. There are many illustrations and examples throughout the book and the language is easy to read.While there are books out there, many of them excellent, that concentrate on the adminstration of SQL Server to the exclusion of development and others that are directed only at developers, this book is geared to the developer that needs to dabble in administration from time to time. This is what makes this book unique and an important addition to any SQL Server 7 developer's library.
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
Joe Celko's foreword to this book is exactly right: it's the best book out on Transact-SQL, bar none. More than that, this is a great book in general. It stands head-and-shoulders above most of the computer books out these days in terms of character, depth, and substance. Unlike many computer books these days, this book is not a bloated tribute to dead trees. Instead, Henderson keeps to the point, nary wasting a word. He is concise, humorous, informative, and deep -- all the things you'd want in the ideal technical book. I give this book my highest recommendation.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Graeme Malcolm
Rating: 4/5
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Graeme Malcolm
Rating: 4/5
This is a great book for a beginner of SQL Server 2000 and XML. Starts off from scratch and walks you thru every aspect of XML and building a complete XML enabled web pages.This is a good book for any one that is looking to find over all information that can give glimpse into the features of SQL Server and be able to utilize to build XML-enabled data-pages.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Database Design on SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-029)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pacuzzi, Alvin Chang, David Pascuzzi
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSE Database Design on SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-029)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pacuzzi, Alvin Chang, David Pascuzzi
Rating: 1/5
Recently, Microsoft has changed their exam. While this book is good and gives you the base, you won't be able to pass the 70-028 exam with this book alone. The book gives you a lot of terminology which appeared in the prior exams i'm sure. So, watch out, buy a more current edition of a cram book. This book has lost it's status from a "Cram Book" to "Wanna know how to use SQL 7.0". I did recently take the test and it was quite different to both this book and the testing book written by the authors.
