Free Downer

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...

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...

LIFE SCIENCE DATA MINING (Science, Engineering, and Biology Informatics)

• ISBN:
• 981270065X
• Authors:
• Stephen Wong

This timely book identifies and highlights the latest data mining paradigms to analyze, combine, integrate, model and simulate vast amounts of heterogeneous multi-modal, multi-scale data for emerging real-world applications in life science.

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...

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...

IUTAM Symposium on Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures: Significance in Turbulence Dynamics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at Kyoto International ... 2004 (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)

• ISBN:
• 1402041802

Elementary vortices – those tubular swirling vortical structures with concentrated vorticity commonly observed in various kinds of turbulent flows – play key roles in turbulence dynamics (e.g. enhancement of mixing, diffusion and resistance) and characterize turbulence statistics (e.g. intermittency). Because of their dynamical importance, manipulation of elementary vortices is expected to be effective and useful in turbulence control as...

Wastewater Purification: Aerobic Granulation in Sequencing Batch Reactors

• ISBN:
• 1420053671

A newcomer to the scene, aerobic granulation is on its way to becoming the hot new technology for high-efficiency wastewater treatment. Thus far, intensive research has been conducted with regard to the understanding of the mechanism of aerobic granulation in sequencing batch reactors (SBR) and its application in treating a wide variety of municipal and industrial wastewater. This basic research has promoted the technology from laboratory-study...

Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications (Chapman & Hall/Crc Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

• ISBN:
• 1420059408

The Definitive Resource on Text Mining Theory and Applications from Foremost Researchers in the Field Giving a broad perspective of the field from numerous vantage points, Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications focuses on statistical methods for text mining and analysis. It examines methods to automatically cluster and classify text documents and applies these methods in a variety of areas, including adaptive information...

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics: Delivering Sales and Marketing Dashboards

• ISBN:
• 1430219289
• Authors:
• Brian Paulen, Jeff Finken

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics provides everything you need to know to develop sophisticated and visually appealing sales and marketing dashboards using SQL Server 2008 and to integrate those dashboards with SharePoint, PerformancePoint, and other key Microsoft technologies. The book begins by addressing the many misconceptions that surround the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and giving a brief overview of the business intelligence (BI)...

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...

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2006 (VDI-Buch)

• ISBN:
• 3540334092

Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. Microsystems in many cases provided the key functions for this progress. Although the issues the event concentrated on didn’t change significantly (safety, powertrain, comfort, etc.), considerable shifts of...

Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

• ISBN:
• 1848002009
• Authors:
• Dan A. Simovici, Chabane Djeraba

The maturing of the field of data mining has brought about an increased level of mathematical sophistication. Such disciplines like topology, combinatorics, partially ordered sets and their associated algebraic structures (lattices and Boolean algebras), and metric spaces are increasingly applied in data mining research. This book presents these mathematical foundations of data mining integrated with applications to provide the reader with a...

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...

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...

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 Reporting Services

• ISBN:
• 0764584979
• Authors:
• Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, Dave DuVarney

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,...

Microsoft Access 2002 Visual Basic for Applications Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735613583
• Authors:
• Evan Callahan

Teach yourself just what you need to know about developing add-ins for Microsoft Office XP. This title, aimed at beginner developers, is a teach-yourself guide to creating custom software solutions, automating tasks, and taking creative control of Access Version 2002 by exploiting its built-in programming language, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). You'll learn to automate databases, write your own functions and procedures,...

Understanding Automotive Electronics, Fifth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750670088
• Authors:
• William Ribbens

This edition of Understanding Automotive Electronics covers the most recent technological advances in operation and troubleshooting of electronic systems and components. This is a practical text, suitable for the automotive technician, student or enthusiast. It includes low-emission standards, on-board diagnostics and communications, digital instrumentation, and digital engine control. In today's cars, the electronics systems are more complex...

Understanding Automotive Electronics (Sams Understanding Series)

• ISBN:
• 0750675993
• Authors:
• William Ribbens

In addition, the new edition explains new electronically controlled vehicle motion control systems including advanced suspension, electronically controlled electric power steering, 4-wheel steering and electronically controlled electric brakes. The braking systems are part of an integrated motion control system that couples ABS brakes; traction control and variable vehicle dynamics for enhanced stability are also described. The development of...

Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting: A Manual for Boatowners and Marine Technicians

• ISBN:
• 0071461868
• Authors:
• Edwin Sherman

SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH THIS STATE-OF-THE-ART GUIDE TO THE LATEST, MOST ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES “Ed Sherman is one of America’s great teachers and communicators of marine technology.”--Tim Murphy, Executive Editor, Cruising World Whether you are a marine electronics professional or a boatowner, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting helps you understand the new, more powerful methods of...

Clarifier Design: WEF Manual of Practice No. FD-8

• ISBN:
• 0071464166
• Authors:
• Water Environment Federation

Clarification is the final step in wastewater treatment. Once the water has been thoroughly cleansed, clarifiers remove both any remaining pollutants and the chemicals added by the treatment process (such as chlorine), so water can be safely released back into the local environment.

You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English

• ISBN:
• 0071464891
• Authors:
• Raymond Lowry

That's right, you already know Italian--even if you never took a language course in your life! Many of the words you know in English are similar and often the same in Italian, such as arte and delizioso . And pizza , bambino , and diva have been part of our lexicon for so long you forget they were ever "foreign." You Already Know Italian is the easiest and fastest way to build your Italian vocabulary by using your prior knowledge as the...

101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius

• ISBN:
• 0071468943
• Authors:
• Brad Graham, Kathy McGowan

101 projects that appeal to the spy in you Utilizing inexpensive, easily obtainable components, you can build the same information gathering, covert sleuthing devices used by your favorite film secret agent. Projects range from simple to sophisticated and come complete with a list of required parts and tools, numerous illustrations, and step-by-step assembly instructions. Projects include: scanners and radios, night vision devices, telephone...

Italian Demystified: A Self Teaching Guide

• ISBN:
• 0071476598
• Authors:
• Marcel Danesi

You can learn to speak Italian in no time-- capisci ? It's time to say arrivederci to your fears of learning a new language. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll have no problema speaking and understanding Italian. Presto ! Before you know it, you'll get past ciao and really be able to converse. Beginning with everyday Italian expressions and a review of basic pronunciation, Italian Demystified covers key grammar fundamentals such as common...

Microsoft Office Access 2003: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

• ISBN:
• 0072229179
• Authors:
• Virginia Andersen

Store, retrieve, and present information accurately and effectively with help from this comprehensive resource. Get the most out of Access, a straightforward but extremely versatile information management tool, including an understanding of basic database concepts as well as intermediate to advanced database design and programming.

Oracle Database 10g: A Beginner's Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

• ISBN:
• 0072230789
• Authors:
• Ian Abramson, Michael Abbey

Provides beginning DBAs and developers with a solid foundation in the database administration and programming basics needed to embark on an Oracle career. The focus is on Oracle Database 10g, but you'll get the fundamentals applicable to all Oracle database releases.

Crystal Reports 9 on Oracle

• ISBN:
• 0072230797
• Authors:
• Marie Annette Harper

Explore connectivity options, then delve into optimization methods that can be implemented in the Crystal environment, including the use of SQL Expressions and SQL Commands. Coverage includes an execution plan, optimization of indexes, and reduction of parsing, and Oracle-specific features such as external tables, Heterogeneous Connectivity, and Oracle Flashback. Common difficulties when using Oracle are described, and solutions provided.

Database Systems Concepts with Oracle CD

• ISBN:
• 0072554819
• Authors:
• Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

The Fourth edition of Database System Concepts has been extensively revised from the 3rd edition. The new edition provides improved coverage of concepts, extensive coverage of new tools and techniques, and updated coverage of database system internals. This text is intended for a first course in databases at the junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate level. Database System Concepts, 4th ed. offers a complete background in the...

Introduction to Data Compression, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

• ISBN:
• 012620862X
• Authors:
• Khalid Sayood

Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class....

Advanced Data Mining Techniques

• ISBN:
• 3540769161
• Authors:
• David L. Olson, Dursun Delen

This book covers the fundamental concepts of data mining, to demonstrate the potential of gathering large sets of data, and analyzing these data sets to gain useful business understanding. The book is organized in three parts. Part I introduces concepts. Part II describes and demonstrates basic data mining algorithms. It also contains chapters on a number of different techniques often used in data mining. Part III focuses on business...