System Management Books

I took a class based on this book and recommend it as a complete overview of the field of CSCW. Both authors are actively involved in the research and publication of studies that involve CSCW and related subjects.

Written in layman's terms, Art Margolis exposes the complex world of computers in a friendly, easy to read format. The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations and charts. This is an excellent beginner's book.

CTH is also an enjoyable and informative "read" for the programmer. A significant portion of the book explains the interactions of discreet components on a logical or bitwise level, using numerous block diagrams for additional clarity. This book provides an introduction to instruction sets, assemblers, and architecture of 8-32 bit processors.

The text is somewhat dated because of its publication date. As a beginner's book however, much of its contents are applicable to the budding computer technician.

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This Book is a very simplified explanation of the problem. It had me moving with good materials and refrences to create awareness at our company. The examples are clear and to the point. When our company initiated the project, the reading of this book was the first assignment for each team member. Eventually, it moved every one and it was a success.

To most lawyers and law firm administrators, selecting and implementing a computerized case management system is an intimidating and sometimes overwhelming task. Andy Adkins, the author of this book, has the technical expertise and writing ability to guide non-experts through the process with common sense--and a healthy dose of humor. He keeps the techno-babble to a minimum while educating the reader enough to understand how case management works and interacts with what is actually happening in a real law office. By the time the final page is turned, the reader will be surprised at how much has been learned and how much confidence gained. Non-experts tossed into the computer world rarely read a technical book completely through. This valuable handbook is the exception.

Bought this book 15 years ago. And I find myself going back to review and come up with better ways to implement automated systems.

This book is one of the best I have ever read. It is very well organized. It is very useful for the preparation of lectures (I teach Information technology at a University). It is also quite colorful and that encourages one to read as well. Sarah et al do not shun details. They go in depth into the important concepts. For example, in Chapter 4, they talk about the types of memory, they give a diagram, they even give a brief History of RAM and list(and explain) the Functions of RAM. They even show where in the Computer it is found!! Keep up the excellent work, Sarah and Stacey(Authors)

While they are hundred of SAP or BAAN or J.D. Edwards or Oracle books in the market, only few books were really written in "ERP context". Fortunately, this book is one of few.

The teaching experience told Brady and Monk that "teaching SAP application" to business students was not sufficient to make students understand the "concept of ERP". This is the impression for them to write this book. The foundation of ERP are addressed in business process perspectives; and then, mapped to the ERP process. One "BIG" case-study is used to describe the ERP component, with respect to SAP R/3 system. However, the fundamental is not limited to SAP package since extensions are also provided.

The uniqueness of this book is the combination of "O'Leary's book (ISBN 0521791529)" and "Jacobs & Whybark (ISBN 0072400897)". Like "Why ERP? by Jacobs and Whybark", Brady and Monk use a single case study to describe the ERP in "formal format" (not in novel as Why ERP). Like "O'Leary's book", this book gives the fundamental to understand ERP rather than "implementation of specific package".

Unlike "Why ERP", this book is the formal textbook, very easy to read textbook, not a novel. Unlike "O'Leary's book", this book is the explanation of ERP and interaction of business process, instead of implemenation and outline.

Another major advantage of this book is the easy-well-written is in 200 pages. Graduate students or passion-readers may finish it in one night. This book is also good for ERP introduction (1-3 meetings) for any Production/Operation Management classes or Supply Chain Management.

One thing that I'd like to see more is the "reference". While this book is quite comprehensive, the reference are limited to the CIO (www.cio.com), instead of many existed publications. I wish the authors would do more research in this area and put additional reference in the context in the next edition.

I am french, so excuse my english ;-)

- Good history of modeling language and representations systems.
- Excellent explanation of relation between logic and UML
- Clear example
- Each chapiter have a "Bibliographical Notes", so... you can go futher a you need
- Excellent chapiter on metamodeling
- MOF and XMI chapiter are short, but the essence ar there.

I strongly recommand this book for person concern by
- system representation
- system architecture
- interest by "formal" UML representation
- Should be hard for beginner

The Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems, by Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Goodman is the jewel for the Theory of Transaction Management and Concurrency Control in Database Systems. Despite of the fact that it is out of print (the last edition going back to 1987), it is still consider up to date and the best source for important aspects of the implementation of the transaction manager of a DBMS such as: - Transaction design -- query formulation, isolation, degree desired, and transaction length - Serializabilty -- criterion for serializability, serialization graph, serialization order - Atomicity -- avoiding dirty reads, repeatable reads, phantom reads - Concurrency control -- two phase locking, resource & data contention, thrashing, detect deadlocks, intention locks, deadlock avoidance protocols, other concurrency control mechanisms - Recovery -- tolerating failures and guaranteeing atomicity, quantitative conclusions

Again, I would recommend this textbook to anyone who interests in the theory of Database Systems in general and at the Theory of Transaction Management in particular.

Regards, Prof. Sarbanes C U N Y Queens College

P.S. : I am looking for adopting this book for my database course for the Fall 2000, but I can NOT find this text book easily. Any help for this matter, would be greatly appreciated.