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An Executive Guide to Management of Value
Author AXELOS
MoV is the core guidance for people who are responsible for maximizing the resources invested to get the best financial and non-financial benefits from programmes and projects This pocketbook is a succinct summary of the detailed framework and is suitable for those with r....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author M. David Allen , Peter Aiken
XML in Data Management is for IT managers and technical staff involved in the creation, administration, or maintenance of a data management infrastructure that includes XML. For most IT staff, XML is either just a buzzword that is ignored or a silver bullet to be us....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style
Author Joe Celko
Are you an SQL programmer that, like many, came to SQL after learning and writing procedural or object-oriented code? Or have switched jobs to where a different brand of SQL is being used, or maybe even been told to learn SQL yourself? If even one answer is ye....
Release Date 2005/05 -
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map
Author David C. Hay
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map not only presents a conceptual model of a metadata repository but also demonstrates a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself. It provides a step-by-step description of the model and is organized s....
Release Date 2010/07 -
DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing
Author Genia Neushloss , Derek Strauss , W.H. Inmon
DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing is the first book on the new generation of data warehouse architecture, DW 2.0, by the father of the data warehouse. The book describes the future of data warehousing that is technologically possib....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Executing Data Quality Projects
Author Danette McGilvray
Information is currency. Recent studies show that data quality problems are costing businesses billions of dollars each year, with poor data linked to waste and inefficiency, damaged credibility among customers and suppliers, and an organizational inability to....
Release Date 2008/09 -
Joe Celko's Data, Measurements and Standards in SQL
Author Joe Celko
Joe Celko has looked deep into the code of SQL programmers and found a consistent and troubling pattern - a frightening lack of consistency between their individual encoding schemes and those of the industries in which they operate. This translates into a seri....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Relational Database Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition
Author Jan L. Harrington
Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementatio....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd Edition
Author Micheline Kamber , Jian Pei , Jiawei Han
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques provides the concepts and techniques in processing gathered data or information, which will be used in various applications. Specifically, it explains data mining and the tools used in discovering knowledge from the collected dat....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, 4th Edition
Author Joe Celko
Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting with a comparison between databases and file systems. It covers transactions and curren....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Nolan Clark
This book provides a cohesive guide to achieving successful small wind installations. It is a comprehensive information resource from one of the world’s most experienced small wind professionals, covering all the key issues for small wind system development, from si....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
The creation of a flexible, efficient, digitized, dependable and resilient power grid may well be the best route to increasing energy efficiency & security, as well as boosting the potential of renewable & distributed power sources. This book covers smart gr....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Celko
The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Author Jonathan A Titus
Get the practical knowledge you need to set up and deploy XBee modules with this hands-on, step-by-step series of experiments.The Hands-on XBee Lab Manual takes the reader through a range of experiments, using a hands-on approach. Each section demonstrates module s....
Release Date 2012/07 -
Agile Data Warehousing Project Management
Author Ralph Hughes
You have to make sense of enormous amounts of data, and while the notion of “agile data warehousing might sound tricky, it can yield as much as a 3-to-1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Bring this highly effective technique to your organization ....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Agile Data Warehousing for the Enterprise
Author Ralph Hughes
Building upon his earlier book that detailed agile data warehousing programming techniques for the Scrum master, Ralph's latest work illustrates the agile interpretations of the remaining software engineering disciplines:Requirements management benefits from strea....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Jules J. Berman
Principles of Big Data helps readers avoid the common mistakes that endanger all Big Data projects. By stressing simple, fundamental concepts, this book teaches readers how to organize large volumes of complex data, and how to achieve data permanence when the conten....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data
Author Krish Krishnan
Data Warehousing in the Age of the Big Data will help you and your organization make the most of unstructured data with your existing data warehouse.As Big Data continues to revolutionize how we use data, it doesn't have to create more confusion. Expert author Kris....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Tom Johnston
Bitemporal data has always been important. But it was not until 2011 that the ISO released a SQL standard that supported it. Currently, among major DBMS vendors, Oracle, IBM and Teradata now provide at least some bitemporal functionality in their flagship products. ....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, 3rd Edition
Author Orjan G. Martinsen , Sverre Grimnes
Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, 3rd Edition paves an easier and more efficient way for people seeking basic knowledge about this discipline. This book's focus is on systems with galvanic contact with tissue, with specific detail on the geometry of the measu....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Hypobaric Storage in Food Industry
Author Stanley Burg
Hypobaric Storage in Food Industry: Advances in Application and Theory presents recent examples of hypobaric storage implementation. The book covers examples including hypobaric warehouses in the United States and China; the results from extensive Chinese publicatio....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Time and Relational Theory, 2nd Edition
Author Nikos Lorentzos , Hugh Darwen , C.J. Date
Time and Relational Theory provides an in-depth description of temporal database systems, which provide special facilities for storing, querying, and updating historical and future data. Traditionally, database management systems provide little or no special support....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, 5th Edition
Author Joe Celko
SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 20 years later and in its fifth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book w....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Securing SQL Server, 3rd Edition
Author Denny Cherry
SQL server is the most widely-used database platform in the world, and a large percentage of these databases are not properly secured, exposing sensitive customer and business data to attack.In Securing SQL Server, Third Edition, you will learn about the potential a....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0
Author Daniel Linstedt , Michael Olschimke
The Data Vault was invented by Dan Linstedt at the U.S. Department of Defense, and the standard has been successfully applied to data warehousing projects at organizations of different sizes, from small to large-size corporations. Due to its simplified design, whic....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Application of Smart Grid Technologies
Author Ali Sayigh , Lisa Lamont
Application of Smart Grid Technologies: Case Studies in Saving Electricity in Different Parts of the World provides a wide international view of smart grid technologies and their implementation in all regions of the globe. A brief overview of smart grid concepts an....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Multi-Dimensional Summarization in Cyber-Physical Society
Author Hai Zhuge
Text summarization has been studied for over a half century, but traditional methods process texts empirically and neglect the fundamental characteristics and principles of language use and understanding. Automatic summarization is a desirable technique for process....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author James O'Reilly
Network Storage: Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company’s Data explains the changes occurring in storage, what they mean, and how to negotiate the minefields of conflicting technologies that litter the storage arena, all in an effort to help IT managers cr....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Paul Breeze
Coal-Fired Generation is a concise, up-to-date and readable guide providing an introduction to this traditional power generation technology. It includes detailed descriptions of coal fired generation systems, demystifies the coal fired technology functions in pract....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks
Author Bing Liu , Enza Messina , Elisabetta Fersini , Federico Alberto Pozzi
The aim of Sentiment Analysis is to define automatic tools able to extract subjective information from texts in natural language, such as opinions and sentiments, in order to create structured and actionable knowledge to be used by either a decision support system ....
Release Date 2016/10