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Remember Who You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind
Author Daisy Wademan
Leadership requires many attributes besides intelligence and business savvy—courage, character, compassion, and respect are just a few. New managers learn concrete skills in the classroom or on the job, but where do they hone the equally important human values that ....
Release Date 2004/05 -
Oracle® DBA Automation Quick Reference
Author Robert Cordingley , Charlie Russel
Fast, easy automation for every Oracle 9i and 10g DBA!Quick access to real-world examplesInstallation, database creation, management, monitoring, tuning, and backup/recoveryOracle Universal Installer (OUI), Oracle Net Configuration Assistant (NetCA), and Oracle Data....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Author Derek J. Balling , Jeremy D. Zawodny
As users come to depend on MySQL, they find that they have to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, and performance--issues that are not well documented but are critical to a smoothly functioning site. This book is an insider's guide to these little underst....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author Armen Stein , Graham Seach , Teresa Hennig , Patricia Cardoza
Covers all features of VBA programming for Access database applicationsBegins with an overview of VBA and highlights what's new in Microsoft Access 2003, the most popular database system in the worldReal-world code examples demonstrate each programming topic, inclu....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Author Dave Haynes
Management books are traditionally written by industry "experts": scholars, consultants, senior managers. They're writing about how to manage workers, but none of these experts really understands the viewpoint of the average worker, the regular grunt in the trenche....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Author Ben Forta
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books, offering a fast-paced accessible tutorial to the major themes and techniques involved in applying the SQL language. Forta¿s examples are clear and his writi....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks
Author Brian Patrick Towles , William James Dally
One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnection networks offer an attractive and economical solution to this communication crisis and are fast b....
Release Date 2004/03 -
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 -
Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes
Author Ben Forta
RegEx is supported in all major development environments (for use in editing and working with code) and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. In addition, every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx, but most don't as it has never been taught to them p....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Author Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in Dancing Barefoot. With a true geek's unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, and the absurditie....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Author John B. Izzo
"What might happen," John Izzo writes, "if we began to think of innocence as a quality we bring to our lives, a perspective and a way of looking at the world, which is not replaced by experience but which influences our experience? When we choose innocence as a....
Release Date 2004/02 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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