Databases Books

A must have book, not a coffee table book..but a computer table book! This book will help you find what you need faster!
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I love the great resources and information given in this book. I would recomend this book to anyone who has to research on the internet. I give this book five stars!

I'm an independent information specialist with several ad agency clients. When I picked up this book, I'd been tearing my hair out over yet another "need it yesterday" assignment. As I read through the interviews in this book, I felt like I was chatting with old friends. It was good to know the challenges I faced were not unique, and I enjoyed reading about how other information pros handled them. I picked up some great ideas.

This book is an excellent introduction for researchers in the ad business, but I'd also recommend it for seasoned professionals. Each professional interviewed for this book had a different area of specialization, and since we can't specialize in everything, the advice and resources that these individuals provide may be helpful even to those who've been in the business for a long time.

Others books have focused on research pros who work in various fields; Super Searchers On Madison Avenue tackles those who function in the advertising and marketing world, using interviews with researchers who find and analyze information for fueling new product launches and ad campaigns. Especially intriguing are case histories showing how successful researchers made the change from traditional careers to being an online researcher.

I really like the book. It provides very helpful and pratical informations about database disaster. This book is good for every DBAs, IT professionals and IT managers.

A must have book for the DBA or manager of a small or medium IT shop in an age of information disasters. This is a book for the Database/IT professional who has to provide a practical recovery option for their small to medium size system in an organization with limited resources. It shows you there are products and strategies that do not require million dollar hardware and software budgets with additional staffing. The generic solutions approach makes the concepts easy to apply to a MS SQL server or DB2 Database system. All these products have similar replication products based on the database transaction file used to solve the issue of a remote recovery site. The clustering solution is applicable to Linux and Unix systems. It reviews a range of existing off the shelf products that can be used in a Windows environment. It details the steps to deploy clustering with minimal new hardware that will meet 90+% of your offices high availability needs. It uses the Data Guard product that comes bundled in with ORACLE database licenses. The solution is aimed at an agile development and rapid deployment scenario that gives you results immediately. The book has the step-by-step instructions of how to, pilot the concept, test your solution and deploy your recovery system. The architecture is easy to deploy and then requires only occasional monitoring in production for low maintenance. This book is a practical exercise is setting up a low cost low maintenance solution for high availability and disaster recovery. Hard on Katrina and 9/11 the need to provide a timely recovery plan for database systems is on very organizations mind. A common requirement all small shops now hear is how to provide a plan to recover the database systems in the event of a catastrophe. Changes in technology now allow you to provide the same kind of IT support for your office that was once only available to large corporate organizations.

This was one of the few books that included a very clear and extensive treatment of information extraction techniques. There were plenty of diagrams which is great for a visual learner. All the techniques are explained using both plain English and formulas, so that you can pick up the scientific notation with minimal previous knowledge.

Even when the authors plug their own company and research at the end it was moderately useful in illustrating the concepts mentioned in a real world scenario.

The amount of textual information floating around on the web is staggering. And the overwhelming amount of this information is simply passed along from sender to receiver for the human being reading it to make sense out of it. There are obvious demands to use a computer to 'read' this material and select out appropriate nuggets from the ore.

Intended for use by advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and people working in the field, this book first covers the definition of the problem and presents several state-of-the-art probabilistic models for information extraction, and how these models can be used in applications. Finally a rather detailed description of several real life applications are included: patent searching, scanning magazine articles, and scanning the news for business intelligence.

Do you suppose that somewhere, some body (or maybe a lot of bodies) are using these techniques to find words like bomb, explosion, etc.

If you are trying to make sense of databases like I do then you need this book. Anderson make short work of trying to figure out where to begin in the troubleshooting process of both Access 97 and Access 2000.

The author uses a flow chart style of troubleshooting. You are given a question as to what the problem is and then following along the flow chart you begin to breakdown where the problem lies and what you need to do to fix it.

Step-by-step instruction for topics like charts, graphs, controls, conversions, exporting, filtering, forms, macros, menus, queries, reports, design and toolbars are but a few of the topics covered in this book.

While the book is only 320 pages there is a wealth of information include and you can also get free web solutions. The actual screen shots make it easier for you to make sure you are in the right place. Overall this book is for the beginner to intermediate level user but there might be something for everyone.

For once a book that claims to troubleshoot does just that. An invaluable tool for any Access user. Buy it!

I work with spreadsheets in my job everyday. I understand the basics and understand what they are supposed to do but sometime I have trouble making them work right. Since my technical expertise lies in other places I need a helping hand and being on the phone for hours is the answer.

Laurie Ann Ulrich has put together a 350 page-troubleshooting guide that takes the mystery out of the spreadsheet world. Ulrich's book covers both the Excel 97 and Excel 2000 applications and Ulrich may have saved me countless hours of frustration.

Tackling areas like charts, formatting of data, dates, shapes and lines, exporting and importing of data, filtering text and formatting numbers, formulas, maps, macros, printing and sorting have given the ability to provide better support to the user community.

The book includes screenshots and a whole host of ideas in a flow chart style of troubleshooting. Ulrich's compilation of methods are certainly some of the best ways to fix problems and this book is for the beginner to intermediate user, however even the most experienced user may be able to benefit.

This is a really practical book. It covers all the things that could go wrong for just about anyone who's using Excel. I work in an office where its only me and two other people who use spreadsheets, and nobody is really an expert. When things go wrong, therefore, there isn't anyone to call and ask - BUT now I have this book! The book makes it really easy to identify your problem and find its solution, and you can learn a lot just by reading through the book even if you don't have a problem. I've uncovered new ways to do things we thought we were doing right, and I found out about features I didn't even know the software had. The author really knows how REAL people use Excel and the examples show it. You can instantly apply what you've read to your own work. I recommend this book to Excel users, both new and experienced. Nobody who uses Excel should be without it!

BOTH Developers and DBAs can learn from this book. Along the line of "Optimizing Oracle Performance" by Cary Milsap; this books shows by clear examples how to Identify Performance Problems (Chapter 3) and how to solve those problems (the remainder of the book).

Developers can learn how to Instrument code to help the tuning process.
DBAs can then trace the code and find the bottleneck/waits.

This book bridges the gap between Developers and DBAs and points out indirectly that Performance is a teams effort and solution.

"Troubleshooting Oracle Performance" is the most thorough, yet physically compact book covering performance tuning with Oracle 9i R2 through 11g R1 on the market. It is quite clear that a great deal of effort was made by the author to carefully verify the tips and test results contained in the book and to organize the material in a logical progression, thus building a bridge between the reader's current understanding to the understanding of complex tuning approaches.

What this book accomplishes, which most other performance tuning books seem to miss, is to indicate which performance tuning features are available in each Oracle release (and which are available at no additional licensing cost) as the various performance tuning approaches are discussed. Not only does the book indicate when a feature would be appropriate, but also potential problems ("Pitfalls and Fallacies") associated with each feature.

The depth of coverage of Oracle 11g R1 features is surprisingly thorough given the short amount of time which that version has been on the market. A little more detail in a couple areas, such as hacking stored outlines, would have been helpful; at the same time, everyone who reads the book might have a different opinion of what needed additional detail, the book could have grown to 2500 or more pages, and likely would have been obsolete by the time it was published.

The Apress Roadmap on the back cover of the book indicates that this book should be read before "Forecasting Oracle Performance", "Expert Oracle Database Architecture", and "Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals". The "Troubleshooting Oracle Performance" book seems to assume that the Oracle database concepts are well understood. As such, it is probably wise to read "Expert Oracle Database Architecture" first, followed by this book, "Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals", and finally "Forecasting Oracle Performance".

This book not only covers the basics, but hits on some of the undocumented (until now) utilities of Compaq's Tru64 UNIX. Some of the information in the book is only obtainable by purchasing Compaq's superb, but expensive, support. I waited a year for this book, and it was well worth it! If you maintain systems that must be on-line 24 X 7 X 365, then you need this book.

I have completed reviewing this publication and the only regret is it will not fit in my back pocket. This book is a real nuts & bolts to Tru64 problems/solutions that are not contained in other material. I have always wished for a referance to solve a problem that removed the guessing or waiting for a support resource to call back. This provides REAL problems and REAL solutions. Steve has provided an excellent handbook for those who do everyday admin. The AdvFS and LSM chapters are the best I have seen. I recommend this book to every one who had a chance to work with Tru64.

La historia escalofrios me parece muy interesante para todos las personas que les gusta el miedo porque es muy horrorosa. Aqui pasaron muchas experiencias porque familias ivan a parques de diversiones y se toparon con uno donde habian monstruos persiguiendolos ellos nunca se lo imaginaron y pasaron mucho tiempo desaparecidos hasta cuando uno de los monstruos se descuido y al fin se lograron reunir los papas con los hijos y pudieron escapar pero uno de los monstruos los persiguio hasta su casa y les dijo olvidaron sus boletos gratuitos y la familia estaba muy traumada de todos los problemas que habian tenido. La historia aclara muy bien el miedo que a muchos les puede suceder.

el libro trata de unos niños perdidos en el parque del terror, donde cada atracción es peor que otra.

Value Line is well known for its reputation of being independent and forthcoming regarding its stock picks. Value Line is mentioned in many finance textbooks as foiling those who believe in the "efficient market hypothesis." As a matter of fact, Value Line recommended Amazon.com on 2/1/02 at $12.53 -Amazon closed at 18.63 on 6/10/02. Besides allowing me to see how its stock picks have done historically, the software included on the CD allows me to create filters and portoflios of stocks that meet my own criteria, view full page survey pages, create technical analysis charts, visit message boards, listen to conference calls, view option chains, graph insider trading and alot, alot more.

I like the fact that I can get intraday updates and email alerts at no extra cost.

I highly recommend it.

Value Line is the AOL of finance!

The feature I like the best is that using the software program's technical analysis charting feature that is included on the CDROM, you can see exactly how effective Value Line recommendations have been over time. It's rare, but refreshing, to know a company has the conviction to show the public how it's recommendations have performed over time.