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 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 Steve Holzner
Eclipse, the popular Java integrated development environment (IDE) provides an elegant and powerful remedy for this common, frustrating scenario. It doesn't just catch your errors before you compile, it also suggests solutions. All you need to do is point and click. And it's free - what could be better? Still, if you're like most programmers, mastering a newtechnology--no matter how productiv...
Price: $4.08 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2004
by Sid Steward
PDF Hacks is ideal for anyone who works with PDFs on a regular basis. Learn how to create PDF documents that are far more powerful than simple representations of paper pages. Hacks cover the full range of PDF functionality, including generating, manipulating, annotating, and consuming PDF information. Far more than another guide to Adobe Acrobat, the book covers a variety of readily available tools for gene...
Price: $19.56 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2004
by Paul Graham
Written in clear, narrative style, Hackers & Painters examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, internet startups and more. In each essay, Graham moves beyond widely held beliefs about the way that programmers work as he tells important stories about the kinds of people behind tech innovations, reveali...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2004
Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference
by Donald K. Burleson
The Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference puts within easy reach the commands that Oracle database administrators need most when operating in a Unix environment. If you are an Oracle DBA moving to Unix from another environment such as Windows NT or IBM Mainframe, you know that these commands are far different from those covered in most beginning Unix books. To jump start your learning process, Don Burleson ...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2001
Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
by James Tisdall
This book shows biologists with little or no programming experience how to use Perl, the ideal language for biological data analysis. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular problem or class of problems, so you'll finish the book with a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for such tasks as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to tackle more advanced bioinformatics pro...
Price: $4.47 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2001
by Christopher A. Jones, Fred L. Drake Jr
If you are a Python programmer who wants to incorporate XML into your skill set, this is the book for you. Python has attracted a wide variety of developers, who use it either as glue to connect critical programming tasks together, or as a complete cross-platform application development language. Yet, because it is object-oriented and has powerful text manipulation abilities, Python is an ideal language for...
Price: $10.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2001
by Darl Kuhn, Scott Schulze
Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference is ideal for DBAs who require a concise reference to common RMAN tasks. The first portion of the book presents commands for such tasks as taking a full database backup, recovering from loss of data file, and cloning a database. The second portion offers a very concise RMAN syntax reference. This book will save DBAs time when performing tasks that are infrequent, yet extremely vi...
Price: $7.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2001
A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic .NET
by Craig Utley
A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic .NET helps current Visual Basic developers identify and understand some of the major changes are between Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET. This book also explores why developers should move to Visual Basic. Learn about the .NET framework, VB .NET VB .NET inheritance, VB .NET web services, VB .NET web applications, VB .NET Windows services, .NET Assemblies, ...
Price: $29.21 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2001