Programming Entity Framework / Julia Lerman, O’Reilly, 2009
Programmers of data intensive apps in the Microsoft environment will find this book valuable. Well written, 600 pages.
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Programming Entity Framework
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework / Roger Jennings, Wiley, 2009
Programs using Microsoft libraries such as LINQ and ADO can be shorter and more abstract, at the expense of being unreadable if you don’t have access to books such as this one. 600 pages.
Oracle PL/SQL Programming
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Oracle PL/SQL Programming 5th ed / by Steven Feuerstein, O’Reilly, 2009
Here is a wealth of information on SQL programming for Oracle’s database. There is also good coverage of Oracle’s Pascal like PL language. Well written, but an unwieldy 1100 pages.
Applied Oracle Security
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Applied Oracle Security : developing secure database and middleware environments / David C. Knox, McGraw-Hill, 2010
Here is a book for Oracle database pro’s. 600 pages.
Oracle Data Guard 11g
Friday, August 28th, 2009Oracle Data Guard 11g handbook / Larry Carpenter, McGraw-Hill, c2009
Best practices for data protection, availability, and disaster recovery. 500 pages.
Information Modeling and Relational Databases
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd ed. / Terry Halpin, Morgan Kaufman, 2008
900 pages, hardcover.
A sane approach to database design
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009A sane approach to database design / by Mark Johansen, Lulu, 2008
This book is short at 200 pages, but it explains clearly most of the things you have to plan when creating a database.
Database design : know it all
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Database design : know it all / Stephen Buxton, Morgan Kaufmann /Elsevier, 2009
Here is a compendium of chapters by 17 authors, all of who are experts on databases. It is a mix of theory and practical information. 350 pages, hardcover.
Data warehousing for dummies
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Data warehousing for dummies / by Thomas C. Hammergren, Wiley, 2009
Here is a managers’ guide to planning an information system.
Expert MySQL
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Expert MySQL / Charles A. Bell, APress, 2007
Here is a book on the internals of MySQL, which will be useful when you want to improve or extend it. The book should also be interesting to you if you are planning to create a complex server app like MySQL. Or maybe you want to embed MySQL? I like this book, though the text is repetitive in places. 500 pages.