Databases Books

I was impressed by the quickness of receiving this book. Of course I was also shocked that I had ordered the wrong book. I had to return it and buy excell.

It's easy to follow the instructions. It also gives you opportunities to practice "hand-on" to gain understanding on how this program works.

This is the best book that I have found for PICK. I've worked with PICK for 26 years and recommend this book or loan one of my two copies to anyone just learning PICK. Get it and keep it.

Fast Track Visual Basic.NET is an excellent follow-up book to the successful Public Beta version. I constantly use this book in the first instance, rather than the larger Professional Desktop books - because it provides me with concise & pragmatic explanations of the key technical issues in a manner that is intuitive.

Back in early 2001, when Visual Studio.NET public beta was released I rushed out and bought a copy of VB.NET Programming With the Public Beta & C# Programming With the Public Beta. Recently I had the pleasure of working as a technical reviewer on both of the sequels: I am a time-poor developer and architect and rely on ensuring that I have access to quality information and value greatly a concise real-world professional explanation.

Generally, as busy developers, we do not have the time to read a book from cover to cover but I found that the Fast Track book is actually well-suited for this because it is so well written and full of interesting issues; although it is also great to use simply as a reference book. But what really sells me on this book is its professional and friendly atmosphere; the craftsmanship of the authors; choice of content and clarity of explanation.

A risk facing many VB.NET developers is that they will not comprehensively understand full Object Orientated programming nor the broader functionality of .NET; having been nurtured on legacy VB's. A C++ or Java developer moving to C# will have an enormous advantage over a legacy VB developer; however this book provides an excellent chapter that simply and clearly articulates the new object-orientated capabilities of our language in a manner that quickly offers the opportunity to bridge the gap.

Apart from the expected syntax and ADO.NET chapters there is excellent discussion of creating a Windows Service, Installation & Deployment and the big issue of Interoperability and Migration (invoking COM and calling Windows API's and using the migration wizard).

The book is full of explanations that simplify complex issues, that are well supported by short, realistic & pragmatic examples and offers a comprehensive understanding of our new & very powerful development paradigm.

This book is simple and concise.
Its very useful for those who are responsible about databases. It shows more techniques than related books used to explain. In fact helps a lot in the process of index making in databases and file organization with statistics (and complexities) and a critique of the weak point of each file structure.

Very very recommended.

Filemaker Pro 3 for Macs for Dummies has helped me immensely in my business. I can't imagine an easier, less threatening way of preseting the material, yet nearly all important features are covered. Very highly recommended.

This is one of the easiest Filemaker Pro 4.0 books I have used. It is very easy to follow and allows you to ease into several features which were difficult to understand in other similar books on this subject.

Seller was prompt with shipping. I purchased my book after the quarter began and had it soon enough to do my wokr without missing any deadlines.

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I highly recommend this book by Lisa Slater Nicholls.

While we as Fox developers are generally fairly comfortable with generating reports within the Fox environment, we aren't as comfortable with applying the power of VFP to getting to data outside of the Fox environment. And many of you have even gone so far as to go to Crystal Reports, because for so many years the MS Fox development team kept telling us that the Report Writer wasn't ever going to substantially change in the future. Well, the introduction of VFP9 contradicted those thoughts that the Report Writer wasn't ever to going to really change. It is so extensible now that we have a whole new area to learn and conquer. This new book will speed you ahead toward that goal and give you a much deeper understanding of not only how VFP9 can get to external data, but to the data within the VFP9 environment. As part of the title of the book says "any data" in "any environment".

The author has a well-known presence in the FoxPro community and has not only written other books and presented sessions at numerous conferences, she was a part of the development team that came up with the new reporting system within VFP9. She is presenting how the reporting tools were intended to be used.

I'm sure many of you who are set in reporting things the old way and feel that what your already know does more than enough. Well, if the old ways were enough, there wouldn't have been a good number of Fox developers moving to Crystal Reports to do their reporting. And Crystal Reports is a tool for reporting all sorts of data in pretty much any environment. This book tells you and shows you that Visual FoxPro 9 can not only do superior reporting, but do it in an environment you are already mostly familiar with and doing it for your customers/boss with a royalty-free runtime library. You can't get any better than that. And this is supposed to also be usable by non-Fox developers. I've been in the Fox area for so long, I surely can't make a legitimate comment on that, except to say, if I can do it, so should any reputable programmer.

And, as with anything new and different from what you've used, don't feel like you are the Lone Ranger if you have to read and re-read it for it to sink in. I like to read new things three times for it to really sink in. Maybe that's my weakness, but it works well. When I first started reading about dBASE II back in the days where it was available for the CP/M operating system, I had no idea what a database system was, let alone what it was used for. I just knew some other computer developers seemed pretty pumped up about its significance at that time. So, I decided to actually read the documentation from cover to cover and I really did read it three times. The first read was very painful. It was all so dry and totally alien. I just didn't get it. [Some might say I still don't get it.] After the second read, a glimmer of hope started emerging which lead me to go one more time with a different perspective on the last read. Then, the light bulb really came on and I had an idea for a personal expense tracking database that I used to apply the material I covered over and over with no purpose in mind as I first read it all.

I bring all of this up not to display how slow I am on the uptake, but to tell you that the material in this book should warrant multiple readings for you to grasp its significance and use. Fortunately, if you are a Fox developer, you already have the basics down of what a database is and does, so you are not starting from day one. And fortunate for you as well is that the book is not anywhere near as long as full documentation on a database product. And, you get a lot of source code to use along with the book's material that lets you try and see the results immediately as you proceed through the book. Today's use of source code to back up programming concepts didn't exist back when I started my quest to learn dBASE II. That old painful process is in my past and I welcome anything that makes it easier to learn and makes it faster to see real results. So, some of the concepts in this book will seem odd at first. But you should quickly be able to absorb what is being shown to you and how to use it, even if it takes three reads to get there!

"Foundations of the World Wide Web" is a must own resource for anyone interested in learning about, developing, or extending his or her skills in the development of effective WWW applications. This book, written by contemporaries of Tim Berners-Lee, accurately covers the origin of the WWW from the perspective and motivations of those who were there, and develops into a full treatment of CGI programming and advanced multimedia applications in an online environment. Simply put, it is the best $35 you're likely to spend on a WWW Developers resource.