Databases Books

Not a thorough reference book, but a very helpful book for someone who doesn't have the time to digest the entire set of books online. Full of practical advice.

Whether you are a programmer who is now responsible for creating and maintaining a SQL Server database or someone who wants to understand the basics of database administration, this book is for you. Reluctant DBAs are those of us who haven't had formal training in administering a database and are surviving on a combination of our wits, Books Online and technical manuals. The biggest problem with Books Online and most tech manuals is they assume prior knowledge. This book, on the other hand, is designed for the programmer who has to handle database administration in addition to normal programming duties. It doesn't go into all of the arcane detail that some of the other books do. Instead, it gives you the knowledge you need to do your job and points you to where you can get more information if you're interested. And many of the headings are in the form of questions, making it easy to scan the table of contents to find the answer you need quickly and easily. In addition, the book comes with easy to use examples that build throughout the book. These examples explain everything from properly normalizing a database to the real reason for building error handling into your stored procedures, all written in a manner that relates back to my roots as a programmer. You can download a sample chapter from the book's supporting website.

Sam tells it like it is and is very candid in stating the facts about selling and customers. In his book he presents 40 years of trial, errors, and some profound success strategies that have been thoroughly tested. He presents a perfect synergy between empathy (heart of selling) and ego-drive (mind of selling) and goes into a great deal about why this synergy is fundamental to becoming a successful sales person.

It's the approach that makes the difference...

Sam Allman does an excellent job at combining unique sales techniques with emotional selling skills that gains and secures customers for life. Too often we are taught traditional sales methods and procedures, however, they have becomes sorely outdated. Sam Allman's book is the key to selling in todays day and age, and not only how to sell, but how to retain a customer for life. A must read for anyone looking to step to the next level of sales and customer retention for life!!

The best part of this book was the amount of time that was spent with PRACTICAL data warehouse techniques. I throughly enjoyed reading this book, and I found it extremely useful in planning and implementing my Data Warehouse. I have all of the Oracle Warehouse books, and this is the one that I refer to most often.

This is an outstanding book for Oracle Data Warehousing. I have a very large data warehouse, and I found this book to have suggestions that dramatically improved my performance. The writing style is very clear, and the book has insights that I was unable to find anywhere else. Overall, an outstanding book.

My manager asked me to explain Java and JavaBeans. This book did the trick. It's well laid-out, with lots of colour pictures, and deals with non-trivial issues in an understandable manner. It also comes with a Java tutorial, along with a try-and-(maybe)-buy version of a tool from Sun. I use this book a lot, along with "Borland's JBuilder: No Experience Required" by Zukowski, and "JBuilder Essentials" by Cary Jensen, et al. IMHO, if you're using JBuilder, you can buy these three books and pitch everything else.

I really enjoyed this book. I found the material clearly written and concise, the projects helpful, and was thankful for the beautifully illustrated examples and colorized source code.

Unfortunately, due to the absolute "newness" of the Beans technology and the awkward transition point we are all suffering through as we slowly migrate to version 1.1.x of Java from 1.0.x, there are inherent frustrations with regard to browser support (or lack, thereof) and, more importantly, many of the discussed products' near-but-not-quite-there support of JavaBeans. I think the book handles these issues rather well, though.

If you are seeking expert coverage into this new and amazing area of the Java Language I can't see a better place to start.

This is a end user book for sure. I didnt' waste anytime when this book was received, it was put directly to work.

Great little book for knowing how to utilize the Lotus Notes software.

Excellent tool to learn all about the ins and outs of Lotus Notes. The beginning of each chapter provides a summary to further explain the function's use.
Regarding delivery, it arrived earlier than expected. :)

This was one of the best walk-through book (text and images) that I have used in learning Access. Access is somewhat a more difficult application to learn, but this format was great.

Thnks for the author who developed the first thought of this design.

College Student (4th yr)

This was one of the best walk-through book (text and images) that I have used in learning Access. Access is somewhat a more difficult application to learn, but this format was great.

Thnks for the author who developed the first thought of this design.

College Student (4th yr)

Worth every penny, if you're learning SAP SD. I've purchased three SAP SD books and this is by far the best.

The author has done a brilliant job in this 2nd Edition. He explains the differences of mySAP ERP SD, its new functionality, and includes topics relevant to the ECC5 and ECC6 versions of SAP. He covers tools like SAP Query and the book is full of time saving tips and advice.

There is an appendix of nearly every transaction code related to SD, as well as in depth steps on how to configure the backbone of SD in SAP, that is pricing, sales documents, Basic functions etc. This book also has brief information on peripheral integration topics such as EDI and user exits in SAP SD.

This book is far better than his previous best seller, with better print and screenshots, I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking for a book explaining how to configure SAP SD, and to advanced users of the SD module.

I read this book in 1997 when a colleague of mine recommended it. I was surprised that this book was not part of the 'popular' object oriented books at the time. It explains the foundation and thinking behind what the other books address in a superficial fashion. This is not about learning how to express designs using some notation. This book is about the thinking that goes behind object oriented modeling, specifically information modeling, regardless of the notation you currently use.
If you are a serious business modeler, business or systems analyst, and you would like to distinguish yourself in your career, this book is for you.
A word of preparation: Be patient with yourself reading this book, this work is not tips-and-techniques that you can skim and add to your bag of tricks. It took me a few readings until I started 'getting' the possibilities that the content produced for me.

I was surprised to find no image of the cover of this book and no customer reviews. At the second thought, it makes sense. This book is for IT practitioners with solid theoreteical background in Computer Science. The book is not complex, but requires patience. It is about all the object-oriented theory behind the most fundamental behaviour of object instances - Create - Read - Update - Delete. All explained in terms of theory of sets using logical predicates, which is part of formal logics.

Anyway, once I bought and read this book in 1998 - 5 years ago - I was hooked on object orientation. Microsoft's ADO, J2EE's EJB's and JDO instantly and naturally made sense to me once they surfaced in IT practice as newly emerged technologies.

I have impressed and opened the eyes of many people of intelligence with my super deep understanding of these issues yet numerous hight tech red necks vere left unmoved.

If you want to feel CRUD and brearth CRUD in Obj-Orient. terms, plus to have really deep knowledge of Object-toRelational mapping, buy it and read it. Plus, buy Kilov's 'Business Specifications' book.

If you are designing an info sec program, this reference is extremely valuable.

It is a great compliment to the authors other work on info sec policy development.

This book is the other half of the author's excellent Information Security Policies Made Easy (version 8), which provides 1175 ready-made policies on CD ROM. What makes this book complement the policy book is that once the policies are written they are useless without defined roles and responsibilities assigned to manage and enforce them,

Included in this book (and in soft copy on the accompanying CD ROM) are organizational mission statements that form the framework for policies, job descriptions for major security role players, and organizational structures with reporting relationships.

The book does not merely present the roles and responsibilities - it goes into the hows and whys, and steps you through the definition and development of a security function in which the roles and responsibilities are defined. More important, the author does not use a canned approach, but provides alternative structures that will allow you to develop and implement the organization that is best aligned to your company. This is one of the most practical and flexible approaches I've seen, and shows the author's extensive experience and realistic attitude. Equally important is the fact that small companies are also addressed, making this book valuable to organizations of all sizes.

You're stepped through the process of identifying your requirements, tailoring the documents provided on the CD ROM to reflect those requirements, and given an idea of the time and resources needed to implement them. In addition to the documented roles and responsibilities and organizational structures provided, this book also covers (and the CD ROM provides) pamphlets to promote security awareness, memos, forms, action plans, a sample security manual and standards, and other documents that will be needed to effectively implement a security organization.

The chapter on common mistakes is worth its weight in gold, as are the appendices, which cover staffing levels, qualifications (this is valuable to HR), and IS security metrics.

Regardless of company size or scope of your security organization, this book will save literally hundreds of hours of research, document development and planning. Even for a small company of 25-100 employees this book will pay for itself many times over, and for a large company the value that this book (and the companion book I mentioned above) represents can run into the tens of thousands of dollars.

The product was exactly how the buyer described it would be. Excellent condition and fast delivery! Thanks!!

Seller was very descriptive in their details concerning this product. There were numerous copies available to purchase, but the description was the deciding factor.