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Author Sean M. Burke
Rich Text Format, or RTF, is the internal markup language used by Microsoft Word and understood by dozens of other word processors. RTF is a universal file format that pervades practically every desktop. Because RTF is text, it's much easier to generate and process....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Author David Loshin
Business Intelligence describes the basic architectural components of a business intelligence environment, ranging from traditional topics such as business process modeling, data modeling, and more modern topics such as business rule systems, data profiling, i....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System
Author Christopher R. Hertel
"The book that Microsoft should have written, but didn't." —Jeremy Allison, Samba Team"Your detailed explanations are clear and backed-up with source code—and the numerous bits of humor make a dry subject very enjoyable to read." —J.D. Lindemann, network engineer, ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Using XML with Legacy Business Applications
Author Michael C. Rawlins
"This volume offers relentlessly pragmatic solutions to help your business applications get the most out of XML, with a breezy style that makes the going easy. Mike has lived this stuff; he has a strong command of the solutions and the philosophy that underlies them....
Release Date 2003/08 -
XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language
Author Philip Wadler , Jim Tivy , Jérôme Siméon , Michael Rys , Jonathan Robie , Michael Kay
"The individual perspectives on the concepts behind the XQuery language offered byXQuery from the Expertswill be of great value to those who are seeking to understand the implications, opportunities, and challenges of XQuery as they design future information systems....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Regular Expression Pocket Reference
Author Tony Stubblebine
Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Sams Teach Yourself DB2® Universal Database™ in 21 Days, Second Edition
Author Susan Visser , Bill Wong
Marketshare for DB2 has been growing steadily over the past 5 years and with the recent release of DB2 Universal Database V8, the product has never had more momentum. Not only is the product used in every company on the Fortune 500, but it is becoming very popular i....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Step by Step
Author Online Training Solutions Inc.
Teach yourself how to use the data management power of the latest version of Microsoft Access—one step at a time! Learn exactly the skills you need for Access 2003 through self-paced, easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files.
Release Date 2003/08 -
DB2® Version 8: The Official Guide
Author Dirk Deroos , George Baklarz , Roman B. Melnyk , Paul C. Zikopoulos
IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.1.2 will help you access any information, from any application, from anywhere in your organization, anytime—and do it all more easily and cost-effectively than you ever thought possible.Now, in DB2 Version 8: The Official Guide, a team ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
Author Elliotte Rusty Harold
Praise for Effective XML“This is an excellent collection of XML best practices: essential reading for any developer using XML. This book will help you avoid common pitfalls and ensure your XML applications remain practical and interoperable for as long as possible.”....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics
Author James Tisdall
Historically, programming hasn't been considered a critical skill for biologists. But now, with access to vast amounts of biological data contained in public databases, programming skills are increasingly in strong demand in biology research and development. Perl, ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Jeff Holt , Cary Millsap
Oracle system performance inefficiencies often go undetected for months or even years--even under intense scrutiny--because traditional Oracle performance analysis methods and tools are fundamentally flawed. They're unreliable and inefficient.Oracle DBAs and develo....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference
Author Peter Linsley , Jonathan Gennick
Support for regular expressions in SQL and PL/SQL is one of the most exciting features of Oracle Database 10G. Oracle has long supported the ANSI-standard LIKE predicate for rudimentary pattern matching, but regular expressions take pattern matching to a new level.....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft® Office Access 2003
Author Susan Sales Harkins , Mike Gunderloy
Microsoft Access 11 is a powerful, relational database software package that makes it easier for you to create and manage complex databases. With Access, you can create a database quickly from scratch or by using and Access database Wizard. Once you¿ve created your ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Terence Critchlow , Zoé Lacroix
Life science data integration and interoperability is one of the most challenging problems facing bioinformatics today. In the current age of the life sciences, investigators have to interpret many types of information from a variety of sources: lab instrumen....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The
Author Ken Henderson
"I can pretty much guarantee that anyone who uses SQL Server on a regular basis (even those located in Redmond working on SQL Server) can learn something new from reading this book." --David Campbell, Product Unit Manager, Relational Server Team, Microsoft Corporati....
Release Date 2003/10 -
The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition
Author Lora D. Delwiche , Susan J. Slaughter
Getting started with SAS is easy with The Little SAS Book. This friendly, easy-to-read guide gently introduces you to the most commonly used features of SAS software plus a whole lot more! The book has been revised to include concepts of the Output Delivery System; ....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Author Deac Lancaster
This is the SQL reference you'll reach for first, every time!If you're an SQL programmer, you can easily picture how useful a comprehensive, single-volume Transact-SQL command reference manual would be in streamlining your work. And if that book was rich in exampl....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document, another XML document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file, a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Author Dan Tow
A poorly performing database application not only costs users time, but also has an impact on other applications running on the same computer or the same network. SQL Tuning provides an essential next step for SQL developers and database administrators who want to e....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Author Laura Thomson , Luke Welling
A concise introduction to the fundamentals of working with MySQL.MySQL is an open-source relational database management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Known for its speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has proven itself to be particularly well s....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Author Sharon Jordan-Evans , Beverly Kaye
How long has it been since you've said that about your work?What are you waiting for?Your organization to care?Your boss to go?Your colleague to stop being a jerk?Someone to hand you an exciting new assignment?More money?This book is the antidote to waiting. R....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Programming Oracle® Triggers and Stored Procedures, Third Edition
Author Kevin Owens
Complete tutorial for database developers!Thorough coverage of PL/SQLPractical "cookbook" techniquesEffectively create and manage complex databases with Oracle! Systems and database expert Kevin Owens explores PL/SQL, Oracle's answer to the Structured Query Languag....
Release Date 2003/12 -
XML in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML
Author Priscilla Walmsley , Charles F. Goldfarb
Co-authors are the world-renowned inventor of markup languages and a developer of the W3C XML Schema specificationDetailed coverage of Office 2003 Professional XML features, plus all the XML knowledge you need to use themLearn to edit your XML document with Word, an....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Author Eric van der Vlist
As developers know, the beauty of XML is that it is extensible, even to the point that you can invent new elements and attributes as you write XML documents. Then, however, you need to define your changes so that applications will be able to make sense of them and ....
Release Date 2003/12 -
XPath: Navigating XML with XPath 1.0 and 2.0 Kick Start
Author Steven Holzner
XPath is to XML as SQL is to databases: XML applications need XPath to locate specific data within an XML document for further processing with other XML applications such as XSLT, XQuery, XPointer, XLink and DOM level 3. With XPath, these applications offer develope....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Author James Garrison
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America", Garrison writes, "has become what it was founded not to be: es....
Release Date 2004/01 -
XQuery: The XML Query Language
Author Michael Brundage
“An excellent, early look at the emerging XML Query standard. The chapters on surprises and gotchas alone are worth the price of admission!” —Ashok Malhotra, Architect, Microsoft“XQuery is the most important XML standard to emerge in recent years, and is a ....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition
Author Jonathan Stern , Robert Stackowiak , Rick Greenwald
An enormous system comprising myriad technologies, options, and releases, Oracle's complexities have spawned numerous areas of specialization. For each area of specialization there are equally specialized how-to books and manuals. O'Reilly's Oracle Essentials cla....
Release Date 2004/02