Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning 
by Steven Wort, Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Michael Cape, Joshua J. Jin, Douglas Hinson, Haidong Ji, Paul A. Mestemaker, Arindam Sen
Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. In addition, the authors demonstrate how to make use of the key tools for SQL Server Performance tuning.Broken into four parts, the book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something is w...
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2008
Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection
by Richard Jensen, Qiang Shen
The rough and fuzzy set approaches presented here open up many new frontiers for continued research and development.Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection provides readers with the background and fundamental ideas behind Feature Selection (FS), with an emphasis on techniques based on rough and fuzzy sets. For readers who are less familiar with the subject, the book begins with an introduction to f...
Price: $106.80 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2008
Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008
by Paul Turley, Dan Wood
Transact-SQL, or T-SQL, is Microsoft Corporation's powerful implementation of the ANSI standard SQL database query language, which was designed to retrieve, manipulate, and add data to relational database management systems (RDBMS).You may already have a basic idea of what SQL is used for, but you may not have a good understanding of the concepts behind relational databases and the purpose of SQL. This...
Price: $21.96 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2008
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow Bible
by Mark Fitzgerald
The digital photographer's workflow is divided into two distinct parts - the Production Workflow and the Creative Workflow. The Production workflow is used to import and organize large numbers of images, and prepare them for presentation via proof printing, Web, or slideshow. Increasingly, photographers are turning to Adobe's acclaimed new Lightroom software to manage this part of the workflow.Aft...
Price: $14.97 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2008
Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
by Samuel Phung
With its support for multiple processor architectures, Windows Embedded CE can be adapted to a variety of devices, including Smartphones, PocketPCs, digital cameras, DVRs, VoIP, network routers, wireless projectors, robotics, data acquisition, human-machine interfaces, and more. Packed with straightforward exercises and helpful examples, this book is aimed at demonstrating how to perform various development...
Price: $7.96 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2008
by Rebecca M. Riordan
Ajax is no longer an experimental approach to website development, but the key to building browser-based applications that form the cornerstone of Web 2.0. Head First Ajax gives you an up-to-date perspective that lets you see exactly what you can do - and has been done - with Ajax. With it, you get a highly practical, in-depth, and mature view of what is now a mature development approach.Using the unique an...
Price: $7.48 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
by Noah Gift, Jeremy M. Jones
Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially for Linux and Unix. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient way to handle them. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of probl...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Jesse Stay
Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site's framework. This book not only gets you started with this toolkit, you also get a complete reference on every FBML tag Facebook has ever written, with advice on the best ways to use these tags in your code....
Price: $3.73 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Brian Desmond, Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
To help you take full advantage of Active Directory, this fourth edition of this bestselling book gives you a thorough grounding in Microsoft's network directory service. With Active Directory, you'll learn how to design, manage, and maintain an AD infrastructure, whether it's for a small business network or a multinational enterprise with thousands of resources, services, and users.This deta...
Price: $4.55 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Jesse Liberty, Brian MacDonald
If you're new to C#, this popular book is the ideal way to get started. Completely revised for the latest version of the language, Learning C# 3.0 starts with the fundamentals and takes you through intermediate and advanced C# features - including generics, interfaces, delegates, lambda expressions, and LINQ. You'll also learn how to build Windows applications and handle data with C#.No previous p...
Price: $24.43 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008