IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Teradata SQL Quick Reference Guide: Simplicity by Design
Publisher: Coffing Data Warehousing
Authors: Tom Coffing, Todd Carroll, Robert Hines, Mike Larkins, Steve Wilmes
Rating: 5/5
Title: Teradata SQL Quick Reference Guide: Simplicity by Design
Publisher: Coffing Data Warehousing
Authors: Tom Coffing, Todd Carroll, Robert Hines, Mike Larkins, Steve Wilmes
Rating: 5/5
This book is very well organized and presents some great troubleshooting with examples along with syntax, commands and some many solid tricks and hints. I find it very helpful on a daily basis.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I bought the first Guru's Guide -- The Guru's Guide to Transact SQL -- as a way to fine-tune my SQL skills when I began a new job as a SQL Server Admin / Developer. Nearly two years later, I still find myself reaching for that book for almost every unique SQL problem that I encounter, and I am rarely disappointed. When I saw that Henderson had written another SQL book, I expected another winner. I was not disappointed.The coverage of stored procedures, user-defined functions, and XML was first-rate. And the relatively short chapter on .NET was loaded with reasons to start learning this new technology.The Essays on Software Engineering were extremely well-written. The intermingling of personal experiences and reflection with the technical details of the topics was done just right. It added a certain amount of relevance to the section that made it feel less like a theoretical lecture and more like the sharing of information by a well-respected colleague. One who has obviously experienced these things and knows what he is talking about. On the surface, these essays may seem a bit out of place in a book about Stored Procedures and XML but, in fact, they fit very well with the overall theme of the book: SQL and Stored Procedure development is "real" software engineering and needs to be treated as such if you are going to be good at it.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Ocp: Oracle8I Dba SQL and Pl/SQL Study Guide : Exam 1Z0-001 (OCP Study Guide)
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
Title: Ocp: Oracle8I Dba SQL and Pl/SQL Study Guide : Exam 1Z0-001 (OCP Study Guide)
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas
Rating: 5/5
I found this book useful for 1z0-001 and pass the exam by reading this book as well. Easy to understand different oracle parameters and PL/SQL block writing skills. I recommend buy this book for study the exam.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
This book spends 500 pages exploring what's already covered quite adequately in the Books Online. Why would anyone write a book that does this? Also, there are several glaring ommissions. As a beginner, I found this book to add little to what's already provided with the product.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Teach Yourself Pl/SQL in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tom Luers, Timothy Atwood, Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
Title: Teach Yourself Pl/SQL in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tom Luers, Timothy Atwood, Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
If you're totally new to pl/sql programming, this is a good book. The explainations are simple and easier to understand than other books that I assume expects you to have some experience. This book gives you some good samples for starters but after finishing this book, I recommend you get a more hardcore book. You could follow the next book you buy with ease and learn a little more. One problem is that this book mentions things that are covered in later chapters, so you might have to go back to the index and jump around a litte (other books do this butthey do it more often).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
This book isn't at all what I expected - and this was a very welcome surprise! From the colophon for the first time not being a member of the animal kingdom (a pair of locking pliers dresses the book's cover) to the content within, this is another achievement for the fine folks at O'Reilly. I first got a copy of the book thinking it was an end-to-end collection of code snippets on using the Google API to write custom apps to access Google's massive data store, but it's so much more than that. The book is wholly a collection of 100 quick-reading tips and tricks on using Google, but not exclusively from a coder's point of view. For that reason, it's very flexible to a wide audience. It's subdivided into distinct sections that focus on using the various services and features offered by Google, such as time-saving query syntax, to customized programming with the Google API, to off-the-wall tricks.The book also gives great examples of performing searches that have little-to-no documentation from Google, such as doing lookups for stock symbols or phone numbers. The authors also do a great job of highlighting several utilities and apps built within and outside of the scope of the Google Terms of Service agreement to access its data. The games are quirky, but cool. You're unquestionably going to find something in the title's pages you'll find neat and want to replicate/morph for your own use.It may tend to disappoint codeheads who buy it just for syntax and rippable code samples for using the Google API, but it does more than make up for it in being a reference for getting the most out of what's undoubtedly the world's most popular search engine.The only criticism I have is that the book was very top-heavy in examples written in Perl, so it's more applicable to that crowd, especially given that the book's back cover advertised examples in .NET, Java, Python, and PHP. (There was ONE example for each of the aforementioned languages and platforms in the chapter on programming against the Google API). However, my fellow .NET developers can surely use the Perl .NET or if you're up for a good challenge, cross-translate the Perl syntax into the equivalent of your favorite .NET language.But outside of that, the book's great. It's quick, fun, organized and won't force you to give up a couple nights to get through it. And it not being solely a programmer's book, it's also applicable for others in your school, office and household. I've let several people read it - namely a teacher, a couple of students, and some Web surfers - and they all enjoyed it thoroughly. You read what you need to read, and get on with your life. And at US$...it's a steal.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 5/5
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 5/5
This is surely great book. For the very beginner it can be a little difficult, but if you have some understanding of what the programming is, this book will move you to the state where you have power to create almost any PHP+MySQL application. Covers many aspects of PHP4 and MySQL application development in both procedural and Object Oriented approaches. There are lots of useful references for further improvement. After reading this book you don't need another one.
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
This is a great book, two years ago. I have spent more time and energy than I wish over the last two months trying to get the syntax differences down, and hunt down bugs in the code I'm writing. A new edition is out expected out in August, in which PHP 4.2 and MySQL 4.1 are to be covered. While no published book will keep up with the advancing of technologies that are standards today, this new edition will be much much closer to what is in use right now.Wait if you can, otherwise, you're in for a headache.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: .NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Jimmy Nilsson, Jimmy Nilsson
Rating: 5/5
Title: .NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Jimmy Nilsson, Jimmy Nilsson
Rating: 5/5
There's enough "learn VB.NET" books out there, most of them not too bad, but nobody dares to stick his neck out at this early stage and suggest an "architecture proposal", which makes these books scaled down product manuals (although easier to read).
Jimmy stuck his neck out and suggests do this and don't do that. Some of his suggestions are not totally OO and so on, but the beauty is that you can see these ideas have been tried and tested in real life scenarios. If you need to design and maintain enterprise apps, this book should be a very valuable companion.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 3/5
The explanations are easy enough to follow along. The SQL code works for the chapters I read. I'd recommend it especially at the Amazon used price.
