IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
To a certain degree I agree with the reviewer who says that SQL in a Nutshell is a "thin" book; it is a command reference for four different RDMSs. But to slam it because it is not a full set of docs is to misread SQL in a Nutshell's purpose; it is designed as a cross-platform reference guide for people like me who are not experts and have to move between RDMS implementations (including desktop apps). Twenty pages out of two hundred on SELECT shows how important the command actually is across platforms.In fact, SQL in a Nutshell's great virtue is that it finally levels the playing field by putting PostgreSQL and MySQL, the popular open source RDMS, on the same level with MS SQL Server and Oracle, each of which easily has its own market for high-end manuals and guides, while open source apps are freely available online.So, if you need full documentation on your favorite RDMS, go ahead and spend a couple of hundred dollars somewhere else. If you want a handy reference, simple explanations and comparisons, and an easy to read introduction to the four most important RDMSs currently available, pick up SQL in a Nutshell. You won't be disappointed.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 2/5
Title: Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Mohammed J. Kabir
Rating: 2/5
The book is not worth the retail price. I guess it was worth it for me since I got a used copy of the book. But this book is more about 50 random applications than about secure programming or writing better code. It would have been good if the book cut down on the application examples and maybe dump it somewhere online (only) and concentrate on making better programmers of the readers. Acutally a majority of the PHP + MySQL books today are not up to par. and that's being kind.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Seo a'Chroit Ruadh
Publisher: Child's Play International Ltd
Authors: Child's Play
Rating: 3/5
Title: Seo a'Chroit Ruadh
Publisher: Child's Play International Ltd
Authors: Child's Play
Rating: 3/5
I'm really torn on this book. The animals and the format are wonderful. The illustrations are cute. I was surprised when I got four pages into it, and Old Macdonald had a shotgun. Then by the end of the book, he was squeezing the last drop out of his whiskey bottle. I would love to see the publisher update the book and replace these drawings. I'm all for free speech and letting kids read the classics in school and not banning books. I'm just not ready to explain guns and alcoholism to my toddler. I don't know whether to take the book away from her or let her read it and hope she never asks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
The question is not whether this is a beg. or pro. book. This book has all the essential components needed to improve the readers programming skills, and gives great information about what SQL Server and Microsoft components to use to create a professional web-site. Give Mathew a pat on the back and a Cuban Cigar.
... And, please don't complain about this book. Surely no one is so naive to think that reading one programming book is going to make one a programmer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Pro SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II
Rating: 5/5
Title: Pro SQL Server Reporting Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II
Rating: 5/5
This book takes you from the basics to very advanced activities. Anyone who is serious about creating custom report solutions should implement SQL RS and use this book. It will help you through step-by-step "how-to" to create an extremely professional result. Reporting Services is fairly new to the public. Only now are books of this nature becoming available. This one is the best!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
This book is [price] and I cannot see the justification for it. 90% of the informatin of this book is contained in Rob Vierra's SQL 2000 book. If you already own Rob Vierra's book, you probably don't need this book to teach you the fundamentals of SQL.This book does a great job for teaching you the fundamentals of SQL. But I am not sure if THAT is worth [price] since SQL is a relatively easy language to learn. Almost every Database book I won teach the concepts of this book. I expected MUCH more and show some cutting edge SQL scripting for its price. But this book fails to deliver it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Black Book: A Resource for Real World Database Solutions and Techniques
Publisher: Paraglyph
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Patrick Dalton
Rating: 2/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Black Book: A Resource for Real World Database Solutions and Techniques
Publisher: Paraglyph
Authors: Paul Whitehead, Patrick Dalton
Rating: 2/5
I bought this book on sale and thought it would be a good reference - looking at how large it is. However, I have not been able to get a single answer to any of my questions.The text goes into no in-depth explanations and it literally has copied the Books On-Line documentation that comes with SQL Server! I don't know how they got by with this as I compared it almost word-for-word in many, many places.I say it's a waste of time because you might as well use SQL's own doc because there's no extra cost and you can search for your topics. Then spend the money to get another reference that goes into more detail and covers what-if scenarios.
Product: Book
Title: PHP and MySQL For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Publisher:
Authors: Janet Valade
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP and MySQL For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Publisher:
Authors: Janet Valade
Rating: 1/5
Well, I bought this book about a year and a half ago, I believe. It was in the height of "dummie-dom" and I figured that this book for a dummie like me would teach me the stuff I needed to know.
What is a little irking though is the fact that Mrs. Valade has indeed dumbed it down to the point that it makes no sense. She tries to insert corny humor where there should be some information. I did not buy a book to laugh, I bought it to learn. Would I rather have a PHP book like a 747-flight-manual? No! But I think that there should definitely be more substance.
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Normally I am not as harsh on reviews of books, but this is just one sad let-down. After a year and a half later, and many other books, I can finally say that I know PHP fairly well. This book did not help at all, in fact, it probably set me back several steps because how she just made no sense. Call me a minimalist, but I like my code quick, efficient, easy to write, easy to understand, and user-friendly. I can write some code that does exaclty what she writes that's a)faster, b)more efficient, c)user-friendly and the most important d) easy for beginners to understand. As she goes off parading with her scripts that even to me make no sense, it really does NOT help with a person who bought the book off the shelf having no idea how PHP worked. In fact, you will often be reading and be clueless as to what's going on... because explanations are few, and what is there lacks valuable information (like my MySQL example).
If I could do it over, I would not buy this book. Using it as a reference is even flimsy. She hardly goes into how a function works. She just gives you this hunk of code to copy and, I assume, figures you will figure it out. Sorry Mrs. Valade, your books don't cut it for me.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
I have been using and referring to this book for years. It is easy to find examples of what I'm looking for. There were no attempts to make this book any thicker than necessary. There are very few good SQL books out there. The books are either too simple or they try to thicken the book with garbage. This one is right on target.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Database-SQL-Rdbms Howto: Postgresql Object Relational Database System
Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
Authors: Al Dev
Rating: 5/5
Title: Database-SQL-Rdbms Howto: Postgresql Object Relational Database System
Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
Authors: Al Dev
Rating: 5/5
I have read this book, and found it is quite useful for SQL. I would recommend to anyone!!
