eBooks List For Item Database Management - General
Data Warehousing Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide for IT Professionals
- ISBN:
- 0471412546
- Authors:
- Paulraj Ponniah
Geared to IT professionals eager to get into the all-important field of data warehousing, this book explores all topics needed by those who design and implement data warehouses. Readers will learn about planning requirements, architecture, infrastructure, data preparation, information delivery, implementation, and maintenance. They'll also find a wealth of industry examples garnered from the author's 25 years of experience in designing and...
Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
- ISBN:
- 0123693896
- Authors:
- Sam S. Lightstone, Toby J. Teorey, Tom Nadeau
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration. Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance, including specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety...
Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining (Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations)
- ISBN:
- 0387243526
- Authors:
- Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas
Knowledge, hidden in voluminous data repositories routinely created and maintained by today’s applications, can be extracted by data mining. The next step is to transform this discovered knowledge into the inference mechanisms or simply the behavior of agents and multi-agent systems. Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining addresses this issue, as well as the arguable challenge of generating intelligence from data while transferring it to a...
Secure Data Management in Decentralized Systems (Advances in Information Security)
- ISBN:
- 0387276947
The research scope of database security has expanded greatly, due to the rapid development of the global inter-networked infrastructure. Databases are no longer stand-alone systems that are only accessible to internal users of organizations. Instead, allowing selective access from different security domains has become a must for many business practices. New data services are emerging everyday, which also brings new challenges to protect data...
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (2nd Edition)
- ISBN:
- 0672324679
- Authors:
- Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, 2E offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This new edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed covers the latest updates and service packs to SQL Server...
Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House
- ISBN:
- 0679768092
- Authors:
- Michael Lewis
A wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated best-seller about the financial world, Liar's Poker.Beginning with the primaries, Lewis traveled across America--a concerned citizen who happened to ride in candidates' airplanes (as well as rented cars...
MCAD/MCSD/MCSE Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation
- ISBN:
- 0735711291
- Authors:
- Thomas Moore
The book is organized according to the exam objectives, including:introducing SQL Server 2000, database design, grouping and normalizing data, data access and modification, programming, views, constraints, defaults and triggers, stored procedures and UD functions, indexes, replication, and monitoring.
State Rankings 2007: A Statistical View of the 50 United States (State Rankings)
- ISBN:
- 0740117106
- Authors:
- Kathleen O'Leary Morgan
Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
- ISBN:
- 0071622276
- Authors:
- Melanie Anjele Cameron
Master Oracle E-Business Suite's Oracle Procure-to-Pay Drive better decision making and maximize asset usage with Oracle E-Business Suite's comprehensive end-to-end procurement solution. This Oracle Press guide details, step-by-step, how to streamline and optimize your enterprise acquisition cycle using Oracle Procure-to-Pay. Set up and configure each module, generate contracts and purchase orders (POs), perform automatic invoicing, process...
Oracle General Ledger Guide: Implement a Highly Automated Financial Processing System (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
- ISBN:
- 0071622292
- Authors:
- Melanie Cameron
Master Oracle E-Business Suite's Oracle General Ledger Maintain a centralized, highly automated processing platform across a fully integrated set of Oracle E-Business Suite applications using Oracle General Ledger. This Oracle Press guide explains how to utilize Oracle General Ledger to distribute timely and accurate financial information enterprise-wide. Learn efficient techniques for creating transactions and budgets, defining custom rules...
Implementing SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution
- ISBN:
- 0072124040
- Authors:
- Glynn C. Williams
One of the world's leading SAP Sales & Distribution consultants delivers the first comprehensive and practical guide to implementing this new module in the R/3 system. Inside this book you'll get complete information on the ins and outs of the software, including basic functions, sales document flow, invoicing, and how the S&D module interfaces with other modules. Sales processes and delivery systems are crucial functions in today's businesses...
Effective Oracle Database 10g Security by Design
- ISBN:
- 0072231300
- Authors:
- David Knox, David Knox, McGraw-Hill
Oracle security expert David Knox explains how to design and develop an integrated, secure Oracle environment. In my experience in the security world, including 32 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, I've not found anyone with more experience in the theory and practice of protecting your data than David Knox. --Dave Carey, former Executive Director of the CIA
UML for Database Design
- ISBN:
- 0201721635
- Authors:
- Eric J. Naiburg, Robert A. Maksimchuk
(Pearson Education) Text in UML for database design, using a running case study throughout the text to illustrate key concepts and techniques, with appendices containing the actual UML models from the case study. Discusses everything from moving to the business system model to creating tables from classes. Softcover. DLC: Database design.
Hands-On Microsoft Access: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills
- ISBN:
- 0321245458
- Authors:
- Bob Schneider
Access is one of the most widely used pieces of software. Perhaps more so than any other common program, such as Word or Excel, though, many of its users find it more vexing to really understand and use well. This is because you can't use Access successfully without a framework in your head of how a relational database management system works, and almost none of us have that training. While there are many books on Access, most of them are either...
Secrets of the Oracle Database (Expert's Voice in Oracle)
- ISBN:
- 1430219521
- Authors:
- Norbert Debes
Secrets of the Oracle Database is the definitive guide to undocumented and partially documented features of the Oracle database server. Covering useful but little–known features from Oracle9 i Database through Oracle Database 11 g , this book will improve your efficiency as an Oracle database administrator or developer. Norbert Debes shines the light of day on features that help you master more difficult administrative, tuning, and...
Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing
- ISBN:
- 1555582877
- Authors:
- Lilian Hobbs, Susan Hillson MS in CIS Boston University, Shilpa Lawande
Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest versions of Oracle -- Oracle 9i Release 1 and Release 2. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code, this updated and expanded edition provides an insider's view of how the Oracle 9i Release 2 software is best used for your application. It provides a detailed look at a wide range of topics including: · New...
Oracle Real Application Clusters
- ISBN:
- 1555582885
- Authors:
- Murali Vallath
Clustered configuration first hit the scene nearly 20 years ago when Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VaxCluster. Until now, the topic of Real Application Clusters (RAC) implementation had never been fully explored. For the first time, Murali Vallath dissects RAC mysteries in his book Oracle Real Application Clusters to enlighten and educate readers on the internals of RAC operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and...
Spss Programming And Data Management: A Guide for Spss And Sas Users
- ISBN:
- 156827355X
- Authors:
- Raynald Levesque
Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals (Expert's Voice)
- ISBN:
- 1590597451
- Authors:
- Lex de Haan, Toon Koppelaars
Relational databases hold data, right? They indeed do, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technologys foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory. Databases contain truths or propositions describing some area of interest such as a business. Those truths are...
Environmental Crime: A Sourcebook
- ISBN:
- 1593320000
- Authors:
- Ronald G. Burns, Michael J. Lynch
Environmental Crime: A Sourcebook provides ideas, tools, and data to investigate environmental offenses. Burns and Lynch urge readers to recognize the availability of a wide array of data regarding environmental offenses and provide bibliographic tools to locate this data. They also provide data sets and examples of data available from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state agencies charged with enforcing environmental laws....
Professional WebObjects with Java
- ISBN:
- 1861004311
- Authors:
- Thomas Termini, Pierce Wetter, Ben Galbraith, Jim Roepcke, Pero Maric, John Hopkins, Josh Flowers, Daniel Steinberg, Max Muller, Michael DeMann, Bernard Scholz
WebObjects 5 is the powerful new release of Apple's award-winning application server, built from the ground up in Java. This allows WebObjects to run on virtually any server making it easily accessible to millions of Java programmers. WebObjects also integrates with other Java-based solutions such as EJB containers, servlets, ORBs, and web services. The combination of a Java runtime with advanced native tools for Mac OS X and Windows 2000 makes...
The Enterprise Architecture IT Project: The Urbanisation Paradigm
- ISBN:
- 1903996384
- Authors:
- Christophe Longépé
The basis for an Enterprise Architecture IT project comes from the identification of the changes necessary to implement the enterprise or organisation's strategy, and the growing information needs arising from this, which increases the demand for the development of the IT system. The development of an IT system can be carried out using an urbanisation approach i.e. building an IT system using the metaphor of a city. This concept is based on the...
Transactions on Computational Systems Biology V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Computational Systems Biology) (v. 5)
- ISBN:
- 3540360484
The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Systems Biology is devoted to inter- and multidisciplinary research in the fields of computer science and life sciences and supports a paradigmatic shift in the techniques from computer and information science to cope with the new challenges arising from the systems oriented point of view of biological phenomena. This, the 5th Transactions on Computational Systems Biology volume, edited by Xiaohua...
Going to Live in Australia, 2nd edition - Your practical guide to living and working in Oz
- ISBN:
- 1845282612
- Authors:
- Mary Neilson, Mathew Collins
"Everything to help you enjoy life in Australia, right from day one!" You want to move to Australia, but you're not sure how to get the right visa, find work and where to live once you've arrived. This up-to-date book tells you everything you'll need to know to settle successfully into your new life 'down under'. It not only covers visas, finding work and where to live, but also deals with health care, education, and such pontentially difficult...
Beginning ASP Databases
- ISBN:
- 1861002726
- Authors:
- John Kauffman, Kevin Spencer, Thearon Willis
Microsoft created Active Server Pages (ASP) to sew together a group of technologies for creating modern web sites, which can intelligently interact with the user at the front end and with servers and datastores at the back end. Among these technologies is ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), which allows easy, powerful and robust control of technologies that access datastores. This book explains the theory and practice of using ADO with ASP by presenting...
Professional XML Databases
- ISBN:
- 1861003587
- Authors:
- Michael Brundage, Patrick Dengler, Jeff Gabriel, Andy Hoskinson, Michael Kay, Thomas Maxwell, Marcelo Ochoa, Johnny Papa, Mohan Vanmane
: In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data. By introducing guidelines for how to...
Microsoft Access 2002 Bible BK+CD
- ISBN:
- 076453596X
- Authors:
- Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Irwin
If Access can do it, you can do it too! Client lists. Sales figures. Web research. Take charge of your data to better run your business or organization. With expert advice from Cary Prague and Michael Irwin, you'll quickly master Access 2002's top database management capabilities and its hot new Web features. Using step-by-step instructions and practical examples and advice, the authors demonstrate everything you need to know to organize,...
Master VISUALLY Microsoft Access 2000
- ISBN:
- 0764560484
- Authors:
- Curtis Frye
Microsoft Access is a tremendously versatile database program that lets you enter, organize, and sort information smoothly and efficiently. Master Microsoft Access 2000 VISUALLY , with 1,050 screenshots alongside step-by-step instructions, is the only resource you need to become a Microsoft Access 2000 expert. Get a grip on all of Microsoft Access' many features with this versatile title: Create custom forms and reports that make reading...
Beginning Regular Expressions (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764574892
- Authors:
- Andrew Watt
Supported by all major databases, scripting languages, and programming languages, regular expressions are powerful "wild-card" text-processing tools used by programmers to find, validate, modify, or edit information Covering a wide range of languages and databases-including JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Access-this book will appeal to the many programmers put off by the Perl-Unix focus of existing regular expressions books Packed with easy-to-follow...
Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764579185
- Authors:
- Sivakumar Harinath, Stephen R. Quinn
Written by the lead developers of Analysis Services at Microsoft, this book begins with an overview showing how Analysis Services and MDX can be used to build data warehouses and multidimensional databases The authors then describe the development processes for building dimensions and cubes from various data sources Demonstrating a variety of techniques in real-world scenarios, the book shows how MDX can be used to query databases to provide...
Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764579665
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Michael K. Glass
This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic, data-driven sites using the open source "AMP" model: Apache Web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting, database management, security, integration, and e-commerce functions and comes complete with a useful syntax reference. Showcases three fully functional Web...
Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764584359
- Authors:
- Brian Knight, Allan Mitchell, Darren Green, Douglas Hinson, Kathi Kellenberger, Andy Leonard, Erik Veerman, Jason Gerard, Haidong Ji, Mike Murphy
This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language. What you will learn from this book Ways to quickly move and transform data How to...
Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL
- ISBN:
- 0764584375
- Authors:
- Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, IV John J. Croft, J. Ambrose Little, Bill Ryan, Phil Winstanley, David Yack, Jeremy Zongker
ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database. Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0...
Professional SQL Server 2005 XML (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764597922
- Authors:
- Scott Klein
Discusses SQL Server 2005 XML from the server and client sides Examines using XSLT to render the XML data that is retrieved from SQL Server, particularly for ASP.NET Addresses SQL Server relationship with schemas, SOAP, XML security, and .NET Makes extensive use of examples to solve problems that programmers face on an everyday basis and features Server 2005 XML best practices
American Medical Association Boy's Guide to Becoming a Teen
- ISBN:
- 0787983438
- Authors:
- American Medical Association, Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer
Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy’s life. It’s even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues boys face from a trusted source. The American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a Teen is filled with invaluable advice to get you ready for the changes you will experience during puberty. Learn about these important topics and more: Puberty and what kinds of physical and emotional...
XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
- ISBN:
- 0201844524
- Authors:
- Akmal B. Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari
Provides a discussion of the various XML data management approaches employed in a range of products and applications. Topics covered range from using XML with Oracle9i or SQL Server to embedded XML databases to Tamino. Softcover.
Sams Teach Yourself Delphi 4 in 21 Days
- ISBN:
- 0672312867
- Authors:
- Kent Reisdorph
Sams Teach Yourself Delphi 4 in 21 Days contains 750 pages of all new content. The tutorial information for programmers and developers will include complete coverage of Delphi 4's enhanced features with a client/server emphasis. Topics will include compatible component development, enterprise-wide integration, Internet enabling tools, Intranet development and beginning coverage of Borland's MIDAS architecture. No other tutorial offers this level...
Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours
- ISBN:
- 0672320908
- Authors:
- Joe Estes, Kathryn Hunt, Neil FitzGerald, Ryan Marples, Steve Lucas
Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports X in 24 Hours will guide the Crystal Reports users through conceptual topics, such as understanding data sources, to creating simple reports using the provided report wizards to custom reporting creation, modification and design techniques. This book will cover the latest version of Crystal Reports. The newest release includes unprecedented technological advances and user interface design improvements - making...
MySQL Certification Study Guide
- ISBN:
- 0672326329
- Authors:
- Paul DuBois, Stefan Hinz, Carsten Pedersen
With more than 4 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. Known for its speed, high reliability, and ease of use, MySQL is rapidly becoming a low-cost alternative to database systems from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. MySQL AB intends to agressively improve the feature set and performance of MySQL, making it more suitable for enterprise-level applications and uses. The MySQL certification tests,...