Expert T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server 
by Kathi Kellenberger, Clayton Groom
Expert T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server takes you from any level of knowledge of windowing functions and turns you into an expert who can use these powerful functions to solve many T-SQL queries. Replace slow cursors and self-joins with queries that are easy to write and fantastically better performing, all through the magic of window functions.First introduced in SQL Server 2005, window functions came ...
Price: $23.82 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Oracle RMAN Database Duplication 
by Darl Kuhn
RMAN is Oracle's flagship backup and recovery tool, but did you know it's also an effective database duplication tool? Oracle RMAN Database Duplication is a deep dive into RMAN's duplication feature set, showing how RMAN can make it so much easier for you as a database administrator to satisfy the many requests from developers and testers for database copies and refreshes for use in their wor...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Matt Katzer
This book takes a concentrated look at the very latest best practices for Office 365 migration, with a focus on the needs of senior managers, IT managers, and others involved in key decisions when moving their business to the cloud.Based on popular chapters in his first book, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud (Apress Open, co-authored with Don Crawford), author Matt Katzer revise...
Price: $13.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph
by Claudio Martella, Dionysios Logothetis, Roman Shaposhnik
Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph helps you build data mining and machine learning applications using the Apache Foundation's Giraph framework for graph processing. This is the same framework as used by Facebook, Google, and other social media analytics operations to derive business value from vast amounts of interconnected data points.Graphs arise in a wealth of data scenarios and describe ...
Price: $37.67 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Bob Familiar
This book provides practical guidance for adopting a high velocity, continuous delivery process to create reliable, scalable, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that are designed and built using a microservice architecture, deployed to the Azure cloud, and managed through automation. Microservices, IoT, and Azure offers software developers, architects, and operations engineers' step-by-step directi...
Price: $33.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Leading When You're Not the Boss
by Roger Strathausen
Answer the questions that arise when managers and workers need to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattened organizational forms. Leading When You're Not the Boss provides a conceptual framework that you can apply when assessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlying ideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one of relationships and the ...
Price: $20.76 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Peter Carter
Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Peter Carter's Pro SQL Server Administration to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requiring consistent and continuous uptime.Begin with an introduction to high-availability and disaster recovery concepts such as Rec...
Price: $38.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by James Bond
Despite the buzz surrounding the cloud computing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed this new style of IT - so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, this practical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessons regarding planning, design, operations, security, and application transformation. This book teaches business and technology manag...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Creating a Data-Driven Organization
by Carl Anderson
What do you need to become a data-driven organization? Far more than having big data or a crack team of unicorn data scientists, it requires establishing an effective, deeply-ingrained data culture. This practical book shows you how true data-drivenness involves processes that require genuine buy-in across your company, from analysts and management to the C-Suite and the board.Through interviews and example...
Price: $23.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by John Jay Hilfiger
It's much easier to grasp complex data relationships with a graph than by scanning numbers in a spreadsheet. This introductory guide shows you how to use the R language to create a variety of useful graphs for visualizing and analyzing complex data for science, business, media, and many other fields. You'll learn methods for highlighting important relationships and trends, reducing data to simpler...
Price: $26.32 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015