IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Kevin Loney, Rachel Carmichael
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Kevin Loney, Rachel Carmichael
Rating: 5/5
I saw this book at Oracle OpenWorld SF and knew I had to get it! This book has scripts that are immediately useful. Combining these scripts with my own personal library of code has increased my own efficiency and proficiency in Oracle! This is a must buy for anybody programming, operating, or administering Oracle environments. Kudos to Loney and Carmichael for this book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle 9i Java Programming: Solutions for Developers Using PL/SQL and Java
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bjarki Holm, John Carnell, Tomas Stubbs, Poornachandra Sarang, Kevin Mukhar, Sant Singh, Jaeda Goodman, Ben Marcotte, Mauricio Naranjo, Anand Raj, Mark Piermanini
Rating: 1/5
Title: Oracle 9i Java Programming: Solutions for Developers Using PL/SQL and Java
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bjarki Holm, John Carnell, Tomas Stubbs, Poornachandra Sarang, Kevin Mukhar, Sant Singh, Jaeda Goodman, Ben Marcotte, Mauricio Naranjo, Anand Raj, Mark Piermanini
Rating: 1/5
Like most of the Wrox books, this one is like staring at a plate of spagetti! Way too many authors and poor editing of the material meant I had a hard time making any headway with this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Robert Sheldon
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Robert Sheldon
Rating: 4/5
Nice book for those who want to know the SQL (not SQL Server) deeply despite the long explanations!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 1/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 1/5
If you compare this book to the other Inside books, you'll find that it's hardly Inside. First and foremost, an Inside book should be comprehensive. This book has holes in it big enough to drive a truck through. The first book - the 6.5 edition - was comprehensive. The problem is: the product has expanded a lot since then. Full text search should be covered. XML should be covered. Replication should be covered. Clustering should be covered. Analysis services should be covered. DTS should be covered. English query should be covered. None of these are. If you have the 6.5 or 7.0 edition of this book, save your money until they update this one a bit more.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Michael Awai, Matthew Bortniker, John Carnell, Kelly Cox, Daniel O'Connor, Mario Zucca, Sean Dillon, Thomas Kyte, Ann Horton, Frank Hubeny, Glenn E. Mitchell II, Kevin Mukhar, Gary Nicol, Guy Ruth Hammond
Rating: 2/5
Title: Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Michael Awai, Matthew Bortniker, John Carnell, Kelly Cox, Daniel O'Connor, Mario Zucca, Sean Dillon, Thomas Kyte, Ann Horton, Frank Hubeny, Glenn E. Mitchell II, Kevin Mukhar, Gary Nicol, Guy Ruth Hammond
Rating: 2/5
This book has something to offer, the question is, can you find it? There are at least 12 authors, some brilliant, and some that should take up another line of work. The sections are not associated with author's names or initials, so you have read the sections to figure out if that section's author was good. The word "I" is used a lot, but it may not be the same "I" as the last time you saw it. "Unix Power Tools" (Amazon) has a better format for this type of work; we know Tom Kyte is smart, but which is his stuff? The section on database fundamentals is awfull. A minor gripe, all the refernces to other texts (and there are few) are to other texts by this publisher (wrox). If you are looking to learn a subject, this is not the place. For instance, JSP and Oracle are covered much better by Hougland and Tavistock in "Core JSP" (available at Amazon). If you have a complex project that happens to be like one of the examples, you could easily get your money's worth out of this book, but you would need to be at a level of understanding where you could figure out how to use the good parts. That is, you need to know more than the editors did. If you know what the topic is you want to research, there is a better book on it, and the best will lead you to other books, no matter who publishs them.
Product: Book
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
Like many people, I use Google many times every day. Now, finally, someone has put together the perfect reference guide and it is paying off already. Buy this book and take the time to read it. It is more than worth the price.
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
What I appreciated most about this book was the way the author pushes the reader to go beyond simply "knowing the material." This is a book that will help you understand the "whys" behind the details. Yes, there are plenty of "tips and tricks" here, as you would expect from the title, but there's a lot more than that. This is a perfect "next step" book if you're an intermediate user of SQL looking to develop some real expertise and stand out from your peers.One one level, this book made me more confident and skilled at Transact-SQL, but it also made me feel like I was beginning to approach SQL as a programmer, not simply as a guy who had memorized a bunch of syntax and keywords. And while the info here is specific to Transact-SQL, the thinking skills will carry over to any platform you work on.As a final note, the chapter on NULLs is worth the entire price of the book all by itself.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson
Rating: 1/5
The book skims over Analysis Services. Case in point: Nowhere in the book does it cover the unary operators and/or how to apply them to create custom rollups. Actually the term "custom rollup" is not even mentioned in the book (though it is a key term for Analysis Services).Knowing what I know now, I wish I'd saved my money.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
Title: OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
I have more than 6 years of experience working with PL/SQL, but let me tell you one thing - don't attempt the 1Z0-007 exam without reading a exam guide. The fine points tested in the exam are not what every day PL/SQL programming is about. This book does an excellent job of covering all the exam objectives and just reading it cover to cover will give you adequate preparation for the test. I did all the practice questions twice along with the two bonus tests provided on the CD. I found that the level of questions in the real exam was slightly easier than that of the practice tests on the CD. How do I know? I used just this one book for preparation and scored 54/57 today afternoon. Wish you luck!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Chanoch Wiggers, Ben Galbraith, Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Amit Bakore, Romin Irani, Sandip Bhattacharya, Chad Fowler
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Chanoch Wiggers, Ben Galbraith, Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Amit Bakore, Romin Irani, Sandip Bhattacharya, Chad Fowler
Rating: 1/5
I purchased the book literally "fooled" by the title. There is nothing professional about this book. All this book tells you is the documentation that comes with tomcat! It does not even provide some naive examples (forget "professional" ones). (Does not explain jk2 installation, hardly any detailed configuration routines!)The only other purpose this book can serve to anyone, is to save paper while printing tomcat documentation.
