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SQL Pocket

rleir — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:13:11 +0000

SQL Pocket Guide 3rd edition, Jonathan Gennick, – 2011

This little book contains everything you need to know about SQL, and it fits in your pocket. Legendary O’Reilly quality, 200 pages.

Joe Celko’s SQL For Smarties

rleir — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:24:40 +0000

Joe Celko’s SQL For Smarties : advanced SQL programming, fourth ed. / Joe Celko, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010

If you can get past the cute title, this book is good. It is for advanced programmers, and assumes you have ‘at least a year of actual experience’. 800 pages. Contents:

1 – Databases versus File Systems
2 – Transactions and Concurrency Control
3 – Schema Level Objects
4 – Locating Data and Special Numbers
5 – Base Tables and Related Elements
6 – Procedural, Semiprocedural, and Declarative Programming
7 – Procedural Constructs
8 – Auxiliary Tables
9 – Normalization
10 – Numeric Data Types
11 – Temporal Data Types
12 – Character Data Types
13 – NULLs: Missing Data in SQL
14 – Multiple Column Data Elements
15 – Table Operations
16 – Comparison or Theta Operators
17 – Valued Predicates
18 – CASE Expressions
19 – LIKE and SIMILAR TO Predicates
20 – BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates
21 – The [NOT] IN() Predicate
22 – EXISTS() Predicate
23 – Quantified Subquery Predicates
24 – The Simple SELECT Statement
25 – Advanced SELECT Statements
26 – Virtual Tables: VIEWs, Derived Tables, CTEs, and MQTs
27 – Partitioning Data in Queries
28 – Grouping Operations,
29 – Simple Aggregate Functions
30 – Advanced Grouping, Windowed Aggregation, and OLAP in SQL
31 – Descriptive Statistics in SQL
32 – Subsequences, Regions, Runs, Gaps, and Islands
33 – Matrices in SQL
34 – Set Operations
35 – Subsets
36 – Trees and Hierarchies in SQL
37 – Graphs in SQL
38 – Temporal Queries
39 – Optimizing SQL

Microsoft SQL Server

rleir — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:20:32 +0000

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming, Itzik Ben-Gan, Microsoft Press, 2010

This book for database programmers covers some advanced topics. 800 pages.

Enterprise Javabeans 3.1

rleir — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:36:48 +0000

Enterprise Javabeans 3.1 6th ed., Andrew Rubinger, O’Reilly, 2010

Programmers of business apps will want to read this.Prerequisite: you need to know java and jdbc well. The last section has several example apps. The author is a lead JBoss developer at RedHat. Legendary O’Reilly quality, 800 pages.

Learning SQL

rleir — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:10:06 +0000

Learning SQL, Alan Beaulieu, O’Reilly, 2009

300 pages.

Language of SQL

rleir — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:04:02 +0000

The Language of SQL, Larry Rockoff, 2011

This is a very gentle introduction for database programmers. It is mostly about retrieval and update, with some discussion of design and normalization. 200 pages.

Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL

rleir — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:56:36 +0000

Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL programming workbook / Michael McLaughlin, McGraw-Hill, 2010

Database programmers will find this useful. 450 pages.

OCA Oracle Database

rleir — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:45:36 +0000

OCA Oracle Database : SQL certified expert exam guide : (exam 1Z0-047) / Steve O’Hearn, McGraw-Hill, 2010

If you are a programmer doing SQL for Oracle, this book will help you get certified. 700 pages.

Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5

rleir — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:11:25 +0000

Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 : LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 / Anne Boehm, Murach, c2009.

This is for the programmer who is developing web apps on Microsoft servers. It starts with very simple steps. Large format, 650 pages.

OCA/OCP Oracle 11g exams 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053

rleir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:01:48 +0000

OCA/OCP Oracle Database 11g all-in-one exam guide : exams 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053 / John Watson, McGraw-Hill, 2010

If you want to get certified, this book will help. 1000 pages, hardcover. Includes a CD with the book in electronic format.