by Paul Kimmel
Microsoft's highly anticipated LINQ query technology makes it easy to retrieve any information programmatically from any data source, no matter where it comes from or how it's stored. Using LINQ, developers can query objects, relational databases, XML documents, and ADO.NET datasets - and do it all directly from C# 3.0, leveraging the powerful capabilities of LINQ.This is a definitive guide to get...
Price: $43.13 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration 
by Ross Mistry, Hilary Cotter
If you need to deploy, manage, or secure Microsoft SQL Server 2008, this is the complete, fast-paced, task-based reference you've been searching for. Authored by a world-class expert on SQL Server in the enterprise, this book goes far beyond the basics, taking on the complex tasks that DBAs need to make the most of Microsoft's flagship database platform. SQL Server MVP, Ross Mistry presents proven...
Price: $9.87 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2008
by Wayne Graham
The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide covers the use and implementation of the Facebook API - what the key features are and how you can access them. You will learn, through practical examples, the main features of the Facebook API including an introduction to the API - specific languages FQL and ...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2008
by Darl Kuhn, Bernard Lopuz, Charles Kim
Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example-based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task-oriented: Look up the task to per...
Price: $36.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2008
by Rakesh Rajan, Todd Herman, Allen Jones, Matthew MacDonald
Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of code examples in this book. Important .NET 3.5 technologies, such as Windows Presentation Fra...
Price: $38.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2008
SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes
by Joseph Sack
SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2008. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Author Joseph Sack takes common Transact-SQL tasks and breaks them down into a problem / solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can ...
Price: $43.76 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2008
by William Steinmetz, Brian Ward
PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too.Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you're...
Price: $10.08 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2008
by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley
LINQ, Language INtegrated Query, is a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction. It addreses O/R mapping issues by making query operations like SQL statements part of the programming language. Adding to its power, LINQ is extensible and can be used to query various data sources. It offers built-in support for querying in-memory ...
Price: $5.57 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2008
by Sam R. Alapati, Charles Kim
Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example-laden review of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation's flagship database product.Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle's flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database ad...
Price: $33.45 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2007
by 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. This book provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner-workings of this powerful database. You'll learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration optio...
Price: $32.11 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007