by Shawn McGehee
In this book, you'll discover how to perform each of these backup and restore operations using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), basic T-SQL scripts and Redgate's SQL Backup tool. Capturing backups using SSMS or simple scripts is perfectly fine for one-off backup operations, but any backups that form part of the recovery stra...
Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
by Kalen Delaney
If you've designed your SQL code intelligently and implemented a sensible indexing strategy, there's a good chance your queries will "fly", when tested in isolation. In the real world, however, where multiple processes can access the same data at the same time, SQL Server often has to make one process wait, sacrificing...
Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
SQL Server Execution Plans, 3rd Edition
by Grant Fritchey
Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans. My book leads you right from the basics of capturing plans, through how to interrupt them in their various forms, graphical or XML, and then how to use the informati...
Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2018
by Daniel Miller, Jolynna Sinanan
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town ...
Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2017
by Matt Bradshaw, Jo Hinchliffe, Dr Andrew Lewis, Jenny List, Brian Lough, Graham Morrison, John Wargo
Whether you want to build robots, smart devices, or any other electronically controlled projects, this is the book you need. We take you through how to program and connect an Arduino microcontroller board, then explore some great projects to make with it.- Build a four-legged walking robot;- Create a Tetris-inspired clock;- Grow your own ...
Price: $35.05 | Free ebook | Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2019
Bayesian Methods for Statistical Analysis
by Borek Puza
Bayesian methods for statistical analysis is a book on statistical methods for analysing a wide variety of data. The book consists of 12 chapters, starting with basic concepts and covering numerous topics, including Bayesian estimation, decision theory, prediction, hypothesis testing, hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods,...
Price: $50.00 | Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2015
by Pat Morin
Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered dictionaries, and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast, practical, and effi...
Price: $32.95 | Free ebook | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013
by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, Andrew L. Farris
Taming Text is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. The book guides you through e...
Price: $4.09 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, Richard Carlsson
Erlang is an adaptable and fault tolerant functional programming language originally designed for the unique demands of the telecom industry. With Erlang/OTP's interpreter, compiler, database server, and libraries, developers are finding they can satisfy tough uptime and performance requirements in all kinds of other industries.Erlan...
Price: $14.67 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2010
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning 
by Andy Hunt
Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head.In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2009
