by Kathi Kellenberger, Lee Everest
Get a performance-oriented introduction to the T-SQL language underlying the Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database engines. This fourth edition is updated to include SQL Notebooks as well as up-to-date syntax and features for T-SQL on-premises and in the Azure cloud. Exercises and examples now include the WideWorldImporters database, the newest sample database from Microsoft for SQL Server. Also new i...
Price: $27.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Practical C++20 Financial Programming, 2nd Edition 
by Carlos Oliveira
Apply C++ to programming problems in the financial industry using this hands-on book, updated for C++20. It explains those aspects of the language that are more frequently used in writing financial software, including the Standard Template Library (STL), templates, and various numerical libraries. Practical C++20 Financial Programming also describes many of the important problems in financial engineering th...
Price: $38.60 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Microsoft Conversational AI Platform for Developers
by Stephan Bisser
Build a chatbot using the Microsoft Conversational AI platform. This book will teach you, step by step, how to save time and money by including chatbots in your enterprise's strategy. You will learn how to be proficient at every phase of development, from collaboration on a chatbot in an end-to-end scenario, to the first mock-up phase, and on through to the deployment and evaluation phases.Microsoft bu...
Price: $37.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Beginning Entity Framework Core 5
by Eric Vogel
Use the code-driven approach of Entity Framework Core 5 to build a functional web application that accesses a database on the backend server. This book covers the common use cases of Entity Framework that a developer needs to master in order to begin building applications that run against a database. Throughout the book you will be shown how to use Entity Framework Core 5 by implementing a simple ASP.NET Co...
Price: $40.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Lean Software Systems Engineering for Developers
by Doug Durham, Chad Michel
Graduate to the next level of your software development career, learning the tools you need to successfully manage the complexity of modern software systems.Whether you are a developer at a small software company, or one of many developers at a large enterprise, your success directly correlates to the ability of your development team to rapidly respond to change. What makes this task challenging in today�...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online
by Harinarayanan V P
Build a digital workplace solution from scratch using SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. The book will help you implement all the modern capabilities of the SharePoint Framework, Teams, and Power Platform into a SharePoint Online solution.You will begin your journey with a short overview of the basics of SharePoint Online. You will then work through a case study with a solutions approach to i...
Price: $43.61 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Hands-on Azure Functions with C#
by Ashirwad Satapathi, Abhishek Mishra
Build serverless solutions using Azure Functions. This book provides you with a deep understanding of Azure Functions so you can build highly scalable and reliable serverless applications.The book starts with an introduction to Azure Functions and demonstrates triggers and bindings with use cases. The process to build an OTP mailer with Queue Storage Trigger and SendGrid output binding is presented, and tim...
Price: $52.64 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Advanced Analytics with Transact-SQL
by Dejan Sarka
Learn about business intelligence (BI) features in T-SQL and how they can help you with data science and analytics efforts without the need to bring in other languages such as R and Python. This book shows you how to compute statistical measures using your existing skills in T-SQL. You will learn how to calculate descriptive statistics, including centers, spreads, skewness, and kurtosis of distributions. Yo...
Price: $32.55 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
by Anthony Nocentino, Ben Weissman
Build a modern data platform by deploying SQL Server in Kubernetes. Modern application deployment needs to be fast and consistent to keep up with business objectives and Kubernetes is quickly becoming the standard for deploying container-based applications, fast. This book introduces Kubernetes and its core concepts. Then it shows you how to build and interact with a Kubernetes cluster. Next, it goes deep i...
Price: $45.93 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB
by Mitch Seymour
Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time.Mitch Seymour, data services engineer...
Price: $52.88 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021