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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 -
Author Rael Dornfest , Tara Calishain
The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 millio....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, Second Edition
Author Chip Dawes , Bill Pril , Steven Feuerstein
Like most PL/SQL programmers, you've found Oracle PL/SQL Programming to be a reference book you can't do without. Packed with examples and recommendations, it's a book that has helped everyone, from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators, make the mo....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Author Bill Hamilton
SQL Server 2005, Microsoft's next-generation data management and analysis solution, represents a huge leap forward. It comes with a myriad of changes that deliver increased security, scalability, and power--making it the complete data package. Used properly, SQL ....
Release Date 2006/02 -
SQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Author Kevin Kline
SQL in a Nutshell applies the eminently useful "Nutshell" format to Structured Query Language (SQL), the elegant--but complex--descriptive language that is used to create and manipulate large stores of data. For SQL programmers, analysts, and database administrators....
Release Date 2004/09 -
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 -
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 -
FileMaker Pro 8: The Missing Manual
Author Susan Prosser , Geoff Coffey
Used by millions worldwide, FileMaker Pro is an award-winning database program for managing people, projects, images, assets, and other information. It's easy to use and totally customizable--so long as you know what you're doing. But FileMaker Pro doesn't come w....
Release Date 2005/09 -
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 -
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 -
Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials
Author Robert Stackowiak , Donald Bales , Rick Greenwald
The new Oracle Application Server offers a wide range of functionality, including Java runtime and development tools, portal development tools, business intelligence, single sign-on identify management, and much more. It's so powerful and complex, in fact, that ma....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition
Author Alan Beaulieu , Sanjay Mishra
The vast majority of Oracle SQL books discuss some syntax, provide the barest rudiments of using Oracle SQL, and perhaps include a few simple examples. It might be enough to pass a survey course, or give you some buzz words to drop in conversation with real Oracle D....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author Priscilla Walmsley
With the XQuery 1.0 standard, you finally have a tool that will make it much easier to search, extract and manipulate information from XML content stored in databases. This in-depth tutorial not only walks you through the XQuery specification, but also teaches you h....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Sid Steward
PDF--to most of the world it stands for that rather tiresome format used for documents downloaded from the web. Slow to load and slower to print, hopelessly unsearchable, and all but impossible to cut and paste from, the Portable Document Format doesn't inspire mu....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Author Scott Palmer , Kate J. Chase
Maybe you got Access as part of Microsoft Office and wonder what it can do for you and your household; maybe you're a small business manager and don't have a techie on staff to train the office in Microsoft Access. Regardless, you want to quickly get your feet w....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
Developers and system administrators alike are uncovering the true power of XML, the Extensible Markup Language that enables data to be sent over the Internet from one computer platform to another or one application to another and retain its original format. Flexib....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]
Author Andy Hertzfeld
There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the groundbreaki....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Author Alan Beaulieu
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard programming language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving information from a relational database. If you're working with a relational database--whether you're writing applications, performing administrative ta....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Author Jonathan Gennick
Despite its wide availability and usage, few developers and DBAs have mastered the true power of Oracle SQLPlus. This bestselling book--now updated for Oracle 10g--is the only in-depth guide to this interactive query tool for writing SQL scripts. It's an essential ....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Peter Morville
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions?....
Release Date 2005/09 -
Author Dan Tynan
From the moment you're born, you enter the data stream-from birth certificates to medical records to what you bought on Amazon last week. As your dossier grows, so do the threats, from identity thieves to government snoops to companies who want to sell you somethi....
Release Date 2005/07 -
Author Matt Webb , Tom Stafford
The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, so....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Russell J.T. Dyer
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. MySQL is designed for speed, power, and flexibility in mission-critical, heavy-use environments and modest applications as well. It's also surprisingly rich in features. If you're a database administrator or....
Release Date 2005/05 -
Author Phil Mitchell , Evan Callahan
When an application is part of the Microsoft Office suite, it's sure to be a leader in its field. In the realm of desktop database management, Access is top dog with millions of users. But this is one dog that can bite. Although Access is a powerful, relational too....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Author Hugh E. Williams , Saied M.M. Tahaghoghi
Whether you're running a business, keeping track of members andmeetings for a club, or just trying to organize a large and diversecollection of information, you'll find the MySQL database engineuseful for answering questions such as: Which are my top ten fastest-s....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author Peter Robson , Stephane Faroult
For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departme....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Ken Bluttman
As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Access has become the industry's leading desktop database management program for organizing, accessing, and sharing information. But taking advantage of this product to build increasingly complex Access applications requires ....
Release Date 2005/04 -
Author Sasha Pachev
Although MySQL's source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, it's essentially closed to you if you don't understand it. In this book, Sasha Pachev -- a former member of the MySQL Development Team -- provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that ....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Sal Mangano
Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anythin....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Anthony Molinaro
You know the rudiments of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren't taking full advantage of SQL's expressive power. You'd like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to your applications. You'd lik....
Release Date 2005/12