Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL, 2nd Edition 
by Richard Stones, Neil Matthew
Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL offers readers a thorough overview of database basics, starting with an explanation of why you might need to use a database, and following with a summary of what different database types have to offer when compared to alternatives like spreadsheets. You'll also learn all about relational database design topics such as the SQL query language, and introduce core princi...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2005
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
Professional SQL Server Reporting Services
by Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, George McKee, Dave DuVarney
SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interactin...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2004
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
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003
by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
Get your mission-critical network, messaging, and collaboration systems up and running quickly with the essential guide to administering Windows Small Business Server 2003. This reference details the features, capabilities, and technologies for both the standard and premium editions - including Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server 2000, and Internet In...
Price: $4.77 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2004
by David Kurtz
The newest addition to the OakTable Press series, PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA, will teach you a range of techniques for maintaining a PeopleSoft system. You will then become able to implement techniques like indexing, implementing DDL, managing tablespaces, and fixing low-performing SQL queries. Author David Kurtz is a field expert and provides answers to common questions that arise when using PeopleSoft ...
Price: $43.87 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2004
Oracle SQL Tuning Pocket Reference
by Mark Gurry
One of the most important challenges faced by Oracle database administrators and Oracle developers is the need to tune SQL statements so that they execute efficiently. In this book, Mark Gurry shares his in-depth knowledge of Oracle's SQL statement optimizers. Mark provides solutions to many common problems that occur with both the rule-based and cost-based optimizers. Mark provides a number of handy S...
Price: $6.76 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2002
Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET
by Dino Esposito
XML is everywhere in the Microsoft .NET Framework, from Remoting to Web services and from data access to configuration. Learn about the extensive XML core classes in .NET and find out how to program against its parser in this in-depth guide - written by a popular programming author and consultant on cutting-edge technologies such as Microsoft ASP.NET and Microsoft ADO.NET. You'll find authoritative exp...
Price: $18.23 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2002
by Bill Pribyl, Steven Feuerstein
PL/SQL, Oracle's programming language for stored procedures, delivers a world of possibilities for your database programs. PL/SQL supplements the standard relational database language, SQL, with a wide range of procedural features, including loops, IF-THEN statements, advanced data structures, and rich transactional control - all closely integrated with the Oracle database server.Knowing where to start...
Price: $40.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2001
Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML
by Michael Awai
This book is for professional Oracle database programmers who need a comprehensive roadmap of the new programming possibilities with Oracle 8i. On the other hand, if you are already developing with Java and XML this book will show you how to exploit PL/SQL and the enterprise features of Oracle 8i in optimally distributing your n-tier applications. Knowledge of the essentials of PL/SQL programming is require...
Price: $32.50 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2000