Databases Books

This book is perfectly targeted for the SE group, which really surprised me because I'm not a big fan of Sybex Books. It can be `read' instead of `studied' (for example, on a plane or in a hotel room), and it is totally packed with information targeted directly at SEs (just look at the table of contents, and you'll see what I mean). I sat and read the first chapter and skimmed several others, and I found that each page had three or four great points that we all really need to know. It is clear to me that the authors must come from a consulting background.

The knowledge in this book will help us all to: (a) understand SQL Server technology, (b) appear knowledgeable enough to instill confidence and promote a buying vision, (c) relate to and build rapport with SQL administrators, and (d) actually solve security-, configuration-, and performance-related issues. I'd like to see us buy a copy of this book for each SE.

This is an excellent book. It clearly explains 'small' things like Error 1205, fill factor, replication server upgrading order, fixing of SPs that modify the system tables after upgrading, the importance of IPC$ as regarding to the client connections, and so on. Last night I was sitting in Barnes & Nobles, juggling all the MS-SQL7 administration books I could find. It is the cheapest, smallest of all (well, '... for Dummies' doesn't really count for my purpose), yet it is the only one that answers all my test questions. In my opinion, the only other way to get a good feeling on SQL7 is to read through all of the Books Online. How you can manage the thousands of pages is one problem though. I wouldn't even I do think I could. I am in the process of upgrading my MCSE to MCSE+I, and I am sure this book is all I need for now. However, here's an advise to my fellow SQL newcomers: I don't think it will really hurt if, in addition, you actually CAN install, upgrade, configure, backup, restore a few SQL7 servers ... AND know NT well. All in all, this is an excellent book for real-life administration and MS certification test.

It seems if you're not supporting over 1k users (or a global network), Microsoft textbooks are harder to comprehend to your situation. Micosoft books focus on what the software is capable of, while this book focuses on what you are likely to encounter on the job. If you like the query analyzer, this book is for you. Highly recommended.

I used this book in combination with some web information to study for the Microsoft Certification test. (70-028) This book was great at updating what I knew for 6.5. This book is aimed at experienced SQL Server users.

I'm one of the authors of this book, and I wanted to point out that this book comes with a CD-ROM full of animations illustrating the concepts.

Some of the animations are in the form of diagrams, while other animations are in the form of role-plays -- where people play the part of various elements of the data structure, illustrating how they interact.

Most books on this subject are dry and boring. To avoid this, we used an informal story-telling style, interjecting intersting stories and humour.

You can also check out the book's website at [...]

I'm one of the authors of this book, and I wanted to point out that this book comes with a CD-ROM full of animations illustrating the concepts.

Some of the animations are in the form of diagrams, while other animations are in the form of role-plays -- where people play the part of various elements of the data structure, illustrating how they interact.

Most books on this subject are dry and boring. To avoid this, we used an informal story-telling style, interjecting intersting stories and humour.

You can also check out the book's website at http://www.sdba.info

This book was purchased for my college-student son, who assures me it's precisely what his Professor called for, to seven decimal places. As the companion book to Bittinger's fine "Elementary Algebra - Concepts and Applications," Elementary Algebra - Concepts and Applications (7th Edition) - Custom the Student Solutions Manual assists students in working through the exercises included in the book. It should be emphasized that these solutions should be consulted AFTER, not BEFORE a student has thoroughly studied the exercises; as the title makes clear, "Student Solutions" is an answer book. However, for a diligent student or anyone wishing to work through Bittinger's "Elementary Algebra" on their own, the Student Solutions Manual should be very helpful.

The solutions manual is definitely a great resource to have in your possession. It shows you step by step how to complete some of the more complicated algebraic problems. I found this book very, very helpful and user friendly.

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!