IT programming books related reviews
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
If you want to learn how to build a large scale php web app from start to finish this is the best book you can buy. Nearly every question i had was clearly explained, from user input validation to file uploads, from database queries to session management, its all here. Some books show you lots of small toy projects, this one builds a (nearly) industrial strength e-commerce site. The lessons are fairly universal, too - i used what i learned form this book to build a full scale dating web site.The only beef i have with this book is that the code is entirely procedural, as opposed to object-oriented. This may not be a problem for most people, but i really feel that, after a site reaches a certain level of complexity, objects really make the code a lot easier to manage. There are also a truly heroic number of typos, so be sure to read the errata on the books web site. That i can still give this book 5 stars is just another testament to its excellence.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Boxed Set
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Boxed Set
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I am a database consultant with Microsoft, and would not be without these books. I strongly recommend the boxed set of three books to everyone working with SQL Server. I also personally know Ken, and his overall knowledge of SQL Server and Windows development is tops.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Fundamentals
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: John J. Patrick
Rating: 5/5
This is a very well organized and practical hands-on book. It explains what you have to do and then if you follow the exercises in the book, it works. I have tried the examples on ORACLE and they worked. This is one of the few books I bought recently that the CD actually works. The book assumes the readers have no prior knowledge of SQL. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft Access Projects with Microsoft SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ralf Albrecht, Natascha Nicol, Dr. Natasha Nicol
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft Access Projects with Microsoft SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ralf Albrecht, Natascha Nicol, Dr. Natasha Nicol
Rating: 5/5
Dont waste your money. I got this today in the post. After a quick look when they install of all things SQL Server 7, I looked at the rest of the book. A new book which is available and written WHEN A2002 and SQL Server 2000 where available and this is the result. Save your money and download books online or buy SQL Access to SQL Server published by Apress. In one section that book has more useful information that this entire volume. MS Press seem to be throwing a book at everything lately and quality was bound to suffer. Pity it was an important area like ADPs that suffered. Me, I am returning this for a refund tomorrow. More useful information on MSDN.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Backup & Recovery
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Anil Desai
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Backup & Recovery
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Anil Desai
Rating: 4/5
While I would love to find a great book on advanced backup and recovery techniques for SQL Server 7, this is not the book. This book is far to general and full of fluff to provide the information you really need. It many ways, the book tries to cover a little of everything about being a SQL Server DBA, but it ends up doing a poor job of covering any topic.I was hoping to find advanced information on log shipping and clustering. While these topics are touched on, they don't provide you the information you really need.If you need a book on the basics of SQL Server 7 backup, most any book covering basic SQL Server 7 DBA responsibilities should fit the bill. This book is a waste of your time.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
This book is GREAT!! This book has it all, but I was mostly impressed with all the SQL samples that show creative set-based solutions. This book shows tons of ways to use joins and subqueries to perform tasks usually performed by cursors. A GREAT addition to your library!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation
Publisher: Que
Authors: Thomas Moore, Ed Tittel
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation
Publisher: Que
Authors: Thomas Moore, Ed Tittel
Rating: 1/5
I was really happy with the 70-315 book from Que, especially the hands-on learning style. I was hoping for the same from this book. Several concepts are explained poorly or are superficial. The Step by Step excercises were so simple as to be useless (SELECT * FROM Customers). At times, the author made statements that are just plain wrong: "If two values are compared, the Boolean result is either positive, negative, or equal(greater than, less than, or equal to)." Another title for this book might be 'SQL Server 101: Read at your own risk'.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
This is the book for SQL Server internals. I absolutely love this book and refer to it often as well as the one for SQL Server 7.0. Kalen Delaney covers a lot of details about SQL Server you won't find anywhere else. If you want to understand more about indexing, or caching, or parallel reads, or the lazywriter process, this is the book for you. I will say it isn't for the faint of heart.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Data Warehousing with SQL Server 7.0 and OLAP Services
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 1/5
Title: Professional Data Warehousing with SQL Server 7.0 and OLAP Services
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Sakhr Youness
Rating: 1/5
Incomplete. Superficial. Inaccurate. I felt taken, after paying for it and reading it all the way through.
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
The book is not well organized. Many topics are thrown in with not much order. Explanations and descriptions are not that clear. The exmaples could have been much better. I would rather wait for a better book on this subject (PHP). I will be returning this book.
