IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 5/5
i bought this book but found that it was a copy of sql server books onliine.I think this book is not enough for the exam and you will have to really hard.Try to study from sqlserver books online rather than wasting money on these guides. I really don't think so that by studying from this book,anyone can pass the exam.The questions which come in the exams are really difficult
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
This little book is straightforward and well organized. It covers all of the major DBMS platforms, like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MySQL, and Oracle. Each of the 22 lessons (chapters) take about 10 minutes to complete -- hence the title, "Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes". There are also appendixes that provide sample scripts, platform information, definitions, etc.
This little book is a fine substitute if you don't have the time or funds to attend a SQL training course.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Highly recommend for anyone interested in MCDBA. The book reads incredibly well and is very thorough in its contents. If you have SQL Server 7.0 set up on your PC at home, you will find the hands on approach in this book to be an excellent way to learn. Yes I'm sure it has errors, why should this book be any different than the other thousand or so computer books on the market.
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
Coming from a VB, ASP and SQL Server background, I found this book to be very well laid out, extremely informative and easy to ramp up on PHP and MySQL.
I've 'inherited' a live ecommerce website which was written in php and mysql. My 'client' has been complaining about how terrible the performance is, how its not responsive, etc... Now using this book as my 'guide' I can clearly see that the site wasn't put together very well.
I've been asked to rewrite the site, and so as I'm developing website version 2 the existing site will run in maintenance mode, but now looking at the code and referring back to the book, me thinks with a bit of refactoring of this site, my client could keep using this site for at least another year...
Anyways I thought y'all might be interested to hear a different (though maybe off-topic) review.
Overall this book is helping me get my job done, I'm learning alot about PHP and MySQL (its a shame that MySQL doesn't have stored procedures... yet)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 5/5
I read one of the authors articles about PHP and decided
to use PHP instead of ASP. I also decided to buy any book he wrote as the articles are so good. A few chapters on
HTML from another book were enough to start building web pages then I started reading the PHP Black Book. Each chapter seems to be complete so I can pick my way through the chapters I need and skip the ones I do not need. You only need about 5 of the 20 chapters to build a web site with a database and forms.Windows is covered so I do not need to learn Unix.MySQL is a useful database that has a whole chapter. I did not know you could use open source software like MySQL on Windows until I read that chapter. The database does what I want so I will skip the chapter on other databases.Everybody says I need this and that for my web site. All the thises and thats are in the book. He explains SQL, XML, LDAP, IMAP, and and how to draw graphics straight from a web page script. I will use that to make my database results in to pictures.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Using)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Rob Kraft, Matthew Shepker, Eric Wilson, Simon Gallagher, Tibor Karaszi
Rating: 5/5
Title: Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Using)
Publisher: Que
Authors: Rob Kraft, Matthew Shepker, Eric Wilson, Simon Gallagher, Tibor Karaszi
Rating: 5/5
Buy it! An excellent overview of SQL Server. Chapter 3 has all the right questions to ask and answer before preparing to bring 7.0 in. Chapters 4, 10, 12, 14, and 16 should be REQUIRED reading for this product. Easy to read and understand... helps if you have SQL Server 7.0 installed and can walk through all the steps.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
I wouldn't waste my money on this one. The first thing you notice when reading it is that the authors have no talent as writers. The observations are often so corny and amateurish that they're beneath publication. Take for example the observation about people with similar names. The book asks a rhetorical question to the effect: "how many times have given someone special attention because they had the same name as you?" Real insightful guys. Sounds like it was written by a twelve year old.The other problem is the stupid deviations into complex math. I suppose you could write complex math functions in most any language with decimal numbers and UDFs, but that doesn't mean it's appropriate or at all representative of what people in the real world do. I'd like to see one SQL Server app out there that implements complex math in UDFs. It's on the fringe, to say the least, yet these guys drone on page after page about it. On top of that, the code presented is sub-optimal and impractical for real use. Basically, it's an exercise in academia that the reader has to suffer through.Worst of all is the fact that the T-SQL shown in the book is no where near advanced. Other reviews have mentioned this, and I'd like to had my wholehearted agreement. If you've programmed for any length of time in T-SQL, this book will teach you little if anything. Not only is it *not* advanced, it's not written very well and wastes time and paper on fringe topics.Not worth the money at all in my opinion. Definitely one for the discount bin.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Essential Reference
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sharon Dooley
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Essential Reference
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sharon Dooley
Rating: 5/5
Sharon Dooley has done a marvelous job with this book. We've needed a good, knowledgeable reference for the DBA side of working with SQLServer, and this book fills the bill. Good organization, accurate information, and lots of helpful hints. Nice work!!!!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
I've been attempting off an on again for over a year to get a grasp on creating and using stored procedures. I've searched the Internet for information, bought another book published by SAMS, read the white papers from Microsoft, just about everything I could think of. Nothing would sink in...Then after sitting back and giving up for a few months, I tried another search of the Amazon books online and found "SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming". I can't believe the ease of learning this book gave me with its simple step by step, hands on instructions. It finally started to click by the time I was in Chapter 3, I finally had a grasp of how to create and use stored procedures with Microsoft's SQL Server.I've been programming since 1976 and never had such a problem getting over a learning curve but this book's easy to follow, detailed and illustrated instructions made it a snap. My thanks go to Dejan Sunderic and Tom Woodhead for creating a top notch book that I'm having a hard time putting down as I'm having such a good time with it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (It-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (It-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Stanek
Rating: 4/5
This good and concise sqlserver administration reference manual has a complete online version on microsoft.com/technet.
