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Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Refe
Author Brian Laskey , David C. Kreines
Oracle database administration requires a vast amount of information and an ability to perform a myriad of tasks--from installation to tuning to network troubleshooting to overall daily administration. Oracle provides many tools for performing these tasks; the tric....
Release Date 1999/04 -
F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming
Author F. Scott Barker
Access 2000 Power Programming gives many practical techniques for the corporate and independent developer. New features of Access 2000 are covered thoroughly and useful examples which will be implemented by programmers in their everyday applications. New topics incl....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Access Database Design and Programming, Second Edition
Author Steven Roman PhD
When using software products with graphical interfaces, we frequently focus so much on the details of how to use the interface that we forget about the more general concepts that allow us to understand and put the software to effective use. This is particularly tru....
Release Date 1999/07 -
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes
Author Ben Forta
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. It is for those users who don't ha....
Release Date 1999/09 -
The Power of Positive Criticism
Author Hendrie Weisinger
Some people just can't take criticism. And some people just can't give it-not in a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial manner, anyway. That's too bad, because criticism is essential to many aspects of business, such as performance appraisals, quality con....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Intro
Author Andrew Odewahn
This compact guide provides the jump-start Oracle developers need to make the transition from traditional programming to the development of useful Web applications for Oracle8i. Even readers who start out knowing nothing about HTML, PL/SQL, or Oracle's other tools....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Oracle Internals: An Introduction
Author Steve Adams
This concise book contains detailed information about Oracle internals -- information that's not readily available to Oracle customers. It lays a foundation for advanced performance tuning of the Oracle database. Based on Oracle8i release 8.1, the book describes m....
Release Date 1999/10 -
Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS® Software
Author Ronald P. Cody
The key to ensuring accurate data is having clean data. This book develops and describes data cleaning programs and macros. You can use many of the programs and macros that are provided, as is, or you can modify them for your own special data cleaning tasks. Ron has....
Release Date 1999/11 -
Author Michael Morrison
XML Unleashed is a complete and comprehensive reference for sophisticated Web developers that covers every possible use of XML, from creating Web documents to building sophisticated Web applications. It covers all aspects of XML technology, from DTDs, XSL, and X Poi....
Release Date 1999/12 -
Author Paul DuBois
In MySQL, Paul DuBois provides you with a comprehensive guide to one of the most popular relational database systems. As an important contributor to the online documentation for MySQL, Paul uses his day-to-day experience answering questions users post on the MySQL m....
Release Date 1999/12 -
Author Harrison Owen
Forms and transforms in people, they become strong, focused, and vibrant-and wonderful things can happen. But when the spirit is down, nothing else seems to make a difference-because not too much happens. Many of us today find ourselves trapped in just such org....
Release Date 2000/01 -
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Author Ken Henderson
Since its introduction over a decade ago, the Microsoft SQL Server query language, Transact-SQL, has become increasingly popular and more powerful. The current version sports such advanced features as OLE Automation support, cross-platform querying facilities, and f....
Release Date 2000/02 -
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition
Author Ryan K. Stephens , Ronald R. Plew
Written by college instructors, Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours quickly teaches beginning- to intermediate-level SQL users how to create, store, access and manipulate data using a proven step-by-step format that teaches SQL by example. This book contains a thoro....
Release Date 2000/03 -
Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference
Author Jonathan Gennick
This pocket reference provides quick reference information that will help you use SQL*Plus, Oracle's interactive query tool. It summarizes all of the SQL*Plus syntax, including the syntax for new Oracle8i release 8.1.6 features. SQL*Plus is available at every Orac....
Release Date 2000/04 -
The Insider's Guide to Grantmaking: How Foundations Find, Fund, and Manage Effective Programs
Author Joel J. Orosz
Unlike many formal professions, foundation grantmaking is a calling with no training programs and little definitive literature on the latest and best practices. Written for program officers and of considerable value to grantseekers, this volume is the first and only....
Release Date 2000/04 -
Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook
Author Andrew Odewahn , Steven Feuerstein
However excellent they are, most computer books are inherently passive--readers simply take in text without having any opportunity to react to it. The Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook is a different kind of animal! It's designed to engage you actively, to get ....
Release Date 2000/05 -
Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server
Author Matthew Shepker
Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server focuses on teaching you not only how to build effective stored procedures, but also how to optimize and streamline them for long term use. Get an understanding of how SQL Server interprets stored procedures verses d....
Release Date 2000/06 -
Author John Lam , Aaron Skonnard , Don Box
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been anointed as the universal duct tape for all software integration problems despite XML's relatively humble origins in the world of document management systems. Essential XML presents a software engineering-focused view o....
Release Date 2000/07 -
Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours
Author Charles Ashbacher
Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours teaches you the fundamental concepts of XML using practical, hands-on examples. Rather than dwelling on dry theory, the book is filled with clear, real-world examples of how the technology can be used today. Coverage includes disp....
Release Date 2000/08 -
Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System
Author Barry J. Schoenborn , Ralph H. Thornburgh
Evaluating, planning, and migrating to SAN storage architecturesSAN concepts, components, and applications—in depthManagement, backup, disaster recovery, and day-to-day administrationIncludes an overview of Fibre Channel, the SAN enablerThe complete guide to SAN tec....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Author Neil Bradley
A concise, comprehensive and accessible guide to the scope, strengths and limitations of the XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) family of stylesheet standards for XML, this book explains the practical ways in which XSL can be utilized for formatting and manipulati....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Author Reed Jacobson , OLAP Train
This title shows how to build applications that take advantage of the powerful data-analysis services in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000. You’ll discover why these services make it easier to analyze huge amounts of data quickly.
Release Date 2000/09 -
Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, Second Edition, The
Author Leigh L. Thompson
At last, a negotiation book that provides an integrated, big-picture view of what to do and what to avoid at the bargaining table based on the latest research findings! Combining a strong applied flavor with straightforward and lively writing, The Mind and Heart of ....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Building Oracle XML Applications
Author Steve Muench
This rich and detailed look at the many Oracle tools that support XML development shows Java and PL/SQL developers how to combine the power of XML and XSLT with the speed, functionality, and reliability of the Oracle database. The nearly 800 pages of entertaining t....
Release Date 2000/10 -
SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com
Author Uwe M. Hoffmann , Michael Missbach
Introduction to designing robust, rock-solid SAP hardware infrastructures!Maximize scalability, availability, and valueHardware sizing: review of techniques with examplesAll you need to know for designing hardware solutions for mySAP.com: Maximizing performance, ava....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Author Steven Holzner
The XML explosion hardly needs any introduction-it's everywhere and there just seems to be no end to what can be done with XML. While writing to the W3C standards, and keeping up with the pace for corporate implementation, you, the programmer or web developer, will....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Author Roger Dawson
Are you a power negotiator?Master negotiator Roger Dawson shows you how to make the most of all your negotiations in the new paperback edition of his classic Secrets of Power Negotiating.This Second Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the chan....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Designing a Data Warehouse: Supporting Customer Relationship Management
Author Chris Todman
The complete guide to building tomorrow's CRM-focused data warehouses.A complete methodology for building CRM-focused data warehousesPlanning, ROI, conceptual and logical models, physical implementation, project management, and beyondFor database developers, archit....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Author Simson Garfinkel
Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy a....
Release Date 2000/12 -
The Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans, WWII to 1956
Author Jeannette Williams
The story of African-Americans employed by the National Security Agency and its predecessors. It tells of the movement of African-Americans from low-level jobs in segregated work units to their rise to key positions in NSA's structure.
Release Date 2001/01