Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 
by Hilary Cotter, Michael Coles
Businesses today want actionable insights into their data - they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user-friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural-language search is at the center of a storm of ever - increasing web-driven demand for human-computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of...
Price: $26.72 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2008
SQL: A Beginner's Guide, 3rd Edition
by Andy Oppel, Robert Sheldon
Written to the SQL:2006 ANSI/ISO standard, this easy-to-follow guide will get you started programming in SQL right away. You will learn how to retrieve, insert, update, and delete database data, and perform management and administrative functions. SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition covers new features, including SQL/XML, and is loaded with updated SQL examples along with notes on using them with th...
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Release: 2008
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
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
by Stephane Faroult, Pascal L'Hermite
What can you do when database performance doesn't meet expectations? Before you turn to expensive hardware upgrades to solve the problem, reach for this book. Refactoring SQL Applications provides a set of tested options for making code modifications to dramatically improve the way your database applications function. Backed by real-world examples, you'll find quick fixes for simple problems, in-d...
Price: $23.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Rick Copeland
Essential SQLAlchemy introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlc...
Price: $14.01 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | 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 Ken Cox
ASP.NET 3.5 makes creating a dynamic site faster and cleaner than ever before, and ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies makes it easier.First, you'll get an introduction to all the tools and terminology you need to understand ASP.NET. If you've used earlier versions of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer, you can probably skip that part and jump right into what's new in 3.5. You'll make friends with LIN...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2008
MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
by Russell Dyer
When you need to find the right SQL keyword or MySQL client command-line option right away, turn to this convenient reference, known for the same speed and flexibility as the system it covers so thoroughly. MySQL is packed with so many capabilities that the odds of remembering a particular function or statement at the right moment are pretty slim. With MySQL in a Nutshell, you get the details you need, day ...
Price: $5.20 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | 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