Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals 
by Jonathan Lewis
The question, "Why isn't Oracle using my index?" must be one of the most popular (or perhaps unpopular) questions ever asked on the Oracle help forums. You've picked exactly the right columns, you've got them in the ideal order, you've computed statistics, you've checked for null columns - and the optimizer flatly refuses to use your index unless you hint it. What could po...
Price: $6.33 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2005
by Carolyn Begg, Thomas Connolly
This book places a strong emphasis on good design practice, allowing readers to master design methodology in an accessible, step-by-step fashion. In this book, database design methodology is explicitly divided into three phases: conceptual, logical, and physical. Each phase is described in a separate chapter with an example of the methodology working in practice. Extensive treatment of the Web as an emergin...
Price: $9.07 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2004
Design of Logic-based Intelligent Systems 
by Klaus Truemper
Design of Logic-based Intelligent Systems develops principles and methods for constructing intelligent systems for complex tasks that are readily done by humans but are difficult for machines. Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches rely on various constructs and methods (production rules, neural nets, support vector machines, fuzzy logic, Bayesian networks, etc.). In contrast, this book uses an ext...
Price: $128.87 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2004
by David Harel, Yishai Feldman
The best selling 'Algorithmics' presents the most important, concepts, methods and results that are fundamental to the science of computing. It starts by introducing the basic ideas of algorithms, including their structures and methods of data manipulation. It then goes on to demonstrate how to design accurate and efficient algorithms, and discusses their inherent limitations. As the author himsel...
Price: $72.98 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2004
by A. M. Kondoz
Building on the success of the first edition Digital Speech offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This Second Edition continues to provide the fundamental technical background required for low bit rate speech coding and the hottest developments in digital speech coding techniques that are applicable to evolving communication systems.Written by a well-known, highl...
Price: $32.98 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2004
by David Sklar
PHP has gained a following among non-technical web designers who need to add interactive aspects to their sites. Offering a gentle learning curve, PHP is an accessible yet powerful language for creating dynamic web pages. As its popularity has grown, PHP's basic feature set has become increasingly more sophisticated. Now PHP 5 boasts advanced features - such as new object-oriented capabilities and supp...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2004
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
Updated and better than ever, this more focused revision provides comprehensive coverage of XML to anyone with a basic understanding of HTML and Web servers. Featuring all-new examples, this book contains everything readers need to know to incorporate XML in their Web site plans, designs, and implementations. Continues expert Elliotte Rusty Harold's well-known track record for delivering the best XML g...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2004
by Bonnie Biafore
Providing comprehensive coverage of Visio's large feature set for technical and engineering professionals, the book begins with a quick introduction to the intuitive interface. This book quickly moves into the specialized stencils, shapes, and templates used in software and network design and documentation, engineering disciplines, and project management. Features strong coverage of Visio's tight ...
Price: $6.48 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2004
by Tim Converse, Joyce Park, Clark Morgan
This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine. Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL. Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL. Includes coverage of ho...
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2004
Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB
by Rod Johnson
In this hands-on guide, Ill show you alternatives to EJB that can be used to create higher quality applications faster and at lower cost. Ill demonstrate how to leverage practical techniques and tools, including the popular open source Spring Framework and Hibernate. Ill guide you through productive solutions to core problems such as transaction management, persistence, remoting, and web tier design. ...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2004