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This book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding, that is, replacing information expressed in symbols, such as a natural language or a sequence of bits, by another message using (possibly) different symbols. There are three main reasons for doing this: economy, reliability, and security, and each is covered in detail. Only a modest mathematical background is assumed, the mathematical theory being introduced at a level that enables the basic problems to be stated carefully, but without unnecessary abstraction. Other features include: clear and careful exposition of fundamental concepts, including optimal coding, data compression, and public-key cryptography; concise but complete proofs of results; coverage of recent advances of practical interest, for example in encryption standards, authentication schemes, and elliptic curve cryptography; numerous examples and exercises, and a full solutions manual available to lecturers from www.springer.com.

Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You?ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data.

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A Hands-On Guide to Equinox and the OSGi Framework

?In OSGI and Equinox: Creating Highly Modular Java? Systems, three leading experts show developers--for the first time--exactly how to make the most of these breakthrough technologies for building highly modular dynamic systems.


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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2011, held in Changsha, China, in July 2011. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The volume also contains extended abstracts of the three invited papers. The topics covered are aggregation operators and decision making; clustering and similarity; computational intelligence; and data privacy.

Gain hands-on experience with PureMVC, the popular open source framework for developing maintainable applications with a Model-View-Controller architecture. In this concise guide, PureMVC creator Cliff Hall teaches the fundamentals of PureMVC development by walking you through the construction of a complete non-trivial Adobe AIR application.

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Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You?ll learn how to manage Drupal?s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.

In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system?s project and code management details.

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Professional-level prep for the professional-level exam.

Prepare for MCPD Exam 70-518?and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows application design and development with .NET Framework 4. Designed for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status?Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCPD level.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2010, held in Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, in September 2010. The 9 revised full papers, 6 revised short papers, and 4 poster papers presented together with 1 PhD paper, 2 system descriptions and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers address all current topics in Web reasoning, Web-based knowledge, and rule systems such as representation techniques; rules and ontologies; reasoning languages; efficiency and benchmarking,; ontology languages; querying and optimization; reasoning with uncertainty, under inconsistency, and with constraints; rule languages and systems; rule interchange formats and markup languages; scalability; approximate reasoning; statistical methods and symbolic reasoning; as well as semantic Web services modeling and applications.

Digital Forensics: Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigation provides the reader with a better understanding of how digital evidence complements traditional?

Taking a new approach to the topic, this book presents digital evidence in addition to other types of evidence and discuss how it can be used effectively to support the investigation. This book provides researchers / SSMs / other managers with contextual information and adequate technical to be able to make more effective use of digital evidence sources that support the various investigations. Includes worked examples of cases, test questions and quiz review to improve student understanding of solution is provided in the attached site includes various case studies throughout to highlight how digital evidence is handled at the scene and what could happen if the procedure is done wrong Considering the evidence in the context of digital Other joint broader scientific evidence Discussing the role of digital devices in criminal activity and provide methods to evaluate and prioritize sources of evidence included discussions about the issues surrounding modern digital evidence examination, for example, the volume of material and complexity of the picture Clear all kinds of digital evidence

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Google Voice is a service that lets you manage all your phone numbers through a single phone number that connected to the Internet. Google Voice is free, although you still have to pay for your ordinary telephone service. Users choose a free phone number and then use that number to manage all their phones. This book will provide you with fast, with quick tips show shortcut help and solutions, warning to help avoid common pitfalls Google Voice, and written in, a clear easy to understand format. You will learn how to use Google Voice tons of cool features that go beyond mere voicemail and call forwarding, including: "Connect your phone using one number, and manage the phone rings when time-based, caller, and more." Call Record and save the recordings online

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Leveraging WMI Scripting is the second in a series of two books dedicated to WMI. Understanding WMI Scripting (ISBN 1-55558-266-4), the first book Lissoir, explaining to the Windows Administrators the various WMI scripting techniques and management capabilities of new Windows Server 2003 platform.

If you have significant experience WMI, or have read the first book Lissoir, you are ready to apply your WMI knowledge to technology that interfaces with WMI. Leveraging WMI Scripting WMI resume serving begins at Understanding WMI Scripting. Lissoir offers a structured explanation of the most important WMI providers available from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 (including Windows 2000 and Windows XP). WMI is an important topic in the Windows Server 2003, so this book provides real added value to every Windows administrator.

Papers were arranged in topical sections on knowledge representation and reasoning, data mining and knowledge discovery, machine learning, statistical learning, evolutionary computation, particle swarm optimization, intelligent agents, search and planning, natural language processing and AI applications.

  We know from the success of titles such as Web Standards Solutions, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, and the Web Designer's Reference that web designers are increasingly concerned with making sites that don't just look pretty, but are also built using current best practices. There are three main technologies married together to create [...]

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This revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware. Taking into account the ever-changing advances in technology using digital techniques and the Internet, CCTV Surveillance, Second [...]

Security professionals and administrators now have access to one of the most valuable resources for learning best practices for network perimeter security. Inside Network Perimeter Security, Second Edition is your guide to preventing network intrusions and defending against any intrusions that do manage to slip through your perimeter. This acclaimed resource has been updated [...]

This new text is designed for electrical engineering majors with a concentration in communications who have already taken a signals and systems course. Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach can also be used for additional study at the graduate level and requires only a minimal knowledge of MATLAB, which is used at length to teach [...]

D'Alessandro, chairman and CEO of John Hancock Financial Services and author of Brand Warfare, offers winning strategies based on the notion that everyone needs to develop a "personal brand" that distinguishes them from other employees. This lively book has advice that is entertaining and bluntly honest. D'Alessandro outlines 10 rules for career success including "Try [...]

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Over 75% of network attacks are targeted at the web application layer. This book provides explicit hacks, tutorials, penetration tests, and step-by-step demonstrations for security professionals and Web application developers to defend their most vulnerable applications. This book defines Web application security, why it should be addressed earlier in the lifecycle in development and quality [...]

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  A concise, readable account of the principles underlying embryonic development in animals and plants, illustrated with colorful artwork and interviews with prominent investigators. Highly recommended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement is a complete, step-by-step plan to ensure that in the software testing process no stone goes unturned. It presents a continuous quality framework based on Deming’s rapid application “spiral” development model for quality through a continuous improvement process. The book details the spiral methodology for software testing broken [...]

Fast, Fun & Easy II is the title, and best describes this entertaining and educational 40 minute DVD featuring the Nikon D40, D40X and D60 digital SLR cameras. This Nikon School DVD makes it easier than ever to begin shooting the digital pictures you’ve always dreamed of.

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ARIS is ranked as the leading Business Process Modelling tool in the Gartner Quadrant for Business Process Analysis and Optimization. The ARIS Design Platform is being used as a business process management (BPM) tool for projects in BPM, quality management, business analysis and design, software development, implementation of service-oriented architectures and so forth. Following on from [...]

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Sexual risk behaviors have inspired profound ideas and effective teamwork. But as the early history of AIDS demonstrates, when sexual practice is part of the equation, the same bold thinkers may be stymied, or just silent. Safe sex and monogamy have been proposed as answers to a gamut of social problems, but there is frequently little consensus on what these terms mean. Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health

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This book provides a detailed technical and business introduction to SSL VPN. It explains how SSL VPN devices work along with their benefits and pitfalls. As well as covering SSL VPN technologies, the book also looks at how to authenticate and educate users—a vital element in ensuring that the security of remote locations is not compromised. After that, you will see strategies for making legacy applications accessible via the SSL VPN. Written in a highly readable style, it provides a vendor-neutral introduction to SSL VPN technology for system architects, analysts, and managers engaged in evaluating and planning an SSL VPN implementation.

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Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its execution, and its evolution. Software visualization combines techniques from areas like software engineering, programming languages, data mining, computer graphics, information visualization and human-computer interaction.

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This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today’s best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.

Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.

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<h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> Oracle Performance Survival Guide



A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization



The fast, complete, start-to-finish guide to optimizing Oracle performance



Oracle Performance Survival Guide offers a structured, systematic, start-to-finish methodology for optimizing Oracle performance as efficiently as possible. Leading Oracle expert Guy Harrison shows how to maximize your tuning investment by focusing on causes rather than symptoms, and by quickly identifying the areas that deliver the greatest “bang for the buck.”



Writing for DBAs and developers with all levels of experience, Harrison covers every area of Oracle performance management, from application design through SQL tuning, contention management through memory and physical IO management. He also presents up-to-the-minute guidance for optimizing the performance of the Oracle 11g Release 2.



You’ll start by mastering Oracle structured performance tuning principles and tools, including techniques for tracing and monitoring Oracle execution. Harrison illuminates the interaction between applications and databases, guides you through choosing tuning tools, and introduces upfront design techniques that lead to higher-performance applications. He also presents a collection of downloadable scripts for reporting on all aspects of database performance.



Coverage includes

• “Tuning by layers,” the most effective, highest-value approach to Oracle performance optimization

• Making the most of Oracle’s core tools for tracing, monitoring, and diagnosing performance

• Highly efficient database logical and physical design, indexing, transaction design, and API use

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• Minimizing contention for locks, latches, shared memory, and other database resources

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• Tuning Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases

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The first part of Special Edition Using Oracle 11i introduces the Oracle ERP applications and R11i concepts. The reader is then educated on proven techniques for implementing these complex and integrated systems. Configuration and usage of each of the financial, distribution, manufacturing, HRMS, and projects applications are covered, followed by a discussion of working with Oracle Support, consulting firms, and compatible software vendors. The appendixes review the employment market, consulting opportunities, and provide the reader with an implementation checklist. All of R11i's new features are covered in-depth and in practical terms. Not only will readers understand Oracle's new capabilities, they will be able to apply them right away.



From the Back Cover
The first part of Special Edition Using Oracle 11i introduces the Oracle ERP applications and R11i concepts. The reader is then educated on proven techniques for implementing these complex and integrated systems. Configuration and usage of each of the financial, distribution, manufacturing, HRMS, and projects applications are covered, followed by a discussion of working with Oracle Support, consulting firms, and compatible software vendors. The appendixes review the employment market, consulting opportunities, and provide the reader with an implementation checklist. All of R11i's new features are covered in-depth and in practical terms. Not only will readers understand Oracle's new capabilities, they will be able to apply them right away.


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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g (Expert's Voice in Oracle)





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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built–in feature set for working with location–based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in todays mobile and highly connected world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address

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OCP Oracle Database 11g Administration II Exam Guide: Exam 1Z0-053





A Fully Integrated Study System for OCP Exam 1Z0-053

Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g: Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCP objectives for exam 1Z0-053, including:

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Database structure and Oracle Automatic Storage Management

On the CD-ROM:

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One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCP exam
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Detailed answers and explanations
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Score report performance assessment tool
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Complete electronic book
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Bonus exam available free with online registration



About the Author

Bob Bryla, OCP, has more than 15 years of experience in database design, application development, training, and Oracle database administration. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook.
Product Details

* Paperback: 752 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (January 9, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0071597093
* ISBN-13: 978-0071597098

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Oracle Database 11g : New Features for DBAs and Developers (Expert's Voice in Oracle)




Product Description

Oracle Database 11g : New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example–laden review of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database product.

* Learn what’s new in Oracle that really counts.
* See actual examples and test run output.
* Make sound decisions on new feature adoption.

Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle’s flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are combined with sound, step–by–step testing and a heart–felt emphasis on what matters in the real–world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g .
What you’ll learn

* Which new features really can make your day–to–day work easier
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Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)




The Essential Resource for Oracle DBAs--Fully Updated and Expanded

Manage a flexible, highly available Oracle database with help from the expert information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press guide. Fully revised to cover every new feature and utility, Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook shows how to perform a new installation, upgrade from previous versions, configure hardware and software for maximum efficiency, and employ bulletproof security. You will learn to automate the backup and recovery process, provide transparent failover capability, audit and tune performance, and distribute your enterprise databases with Oracle Net.

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Plan and deploy permanent, temporary, and bigfile tablespaces
* Optimize disk allocation, CPU usage, I/O throughput, and SQL queries
* Develop powerful database management applications
* Guard against human errors using Oracle Flashback and Oracle Automatic Undo Management
* Diagnose and tune system performance using Oracle Automatic Workload Repository and SQL Tuning Sets
* Implement robust security using authentication, authorization, fine-grained auditing, and fine-grained access control
* Maintain high availability using Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Active Data Guard
* Respond more efficiently to failure scenarios by leveraging the Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository and the Oracle Repair Advisor
* Back up and restore tables, tablespaces, and databases with Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Data Pump Export and Import
* Work with networked databases, data warehouses, and VLDBs
* Put the latest Oracle Database 11g tools to work--Oracle Total Recall, Oracle Flashback Data Archive, and more


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Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)




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Deliver dynamic, client/server PL/SQL applications with expert guidance from an Oracle programming professional. With full coverage of the latest features and tools, Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming lays out each topic alongside detailed explanations, cut-and-paste syntax examples, and real-world case studies. Access and modify database information, construct powerful PL/SQL statements, execute effective queries, and deploy bulletproof security. You'll also learn how to implement C, C++, and Java procedures, Web-enable your database, cut development time, and optimize performance.

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Create, debug, and manage Oracle-driven PL/SQL programs
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Use PL/SQL structures, delimiters, operators, variables, and statements
* Identify and eliminate errors using PLSQL_WARNINGS and exception handlers
* Work with functions, procedures, packages, collections, and triggers
* Define and deploy varray, nested table, and associative array data types
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Handle external routines, object types, large objects, and secure files
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Communicate between parallel sessions using DBMS_ALERT and DBMS_PIPE
* Call external procedures through Oracle Net Services and PL/SQL wrappers
* Integrate internal and server-side Java class libraries using Oracle JVM
* Develop robust Web applications using PL/SQL Gateway and Web Toolkit


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File Name: Practical Guide to Using SQL in Oracle
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 15 Jul 2009
File Category: Oracle


Product Description
Structured Query Language has become the standard for generating, manipulating, and retrieving database information. The dramatic increase in the popularity of relational databases, coupled with Oracle s having the largest market share, has created a demand for programmers who can write SQL code correctly and efficiently. This book provides a systematic approach to learning SQL in Oracle. Each chapter is written in a step-by-step manner and includes examples that can be run using Oracle. Using the sample tables and data provided, readers will be able to perform the examples to gain hands-on experience with Oracle programming.

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File Name: Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 15 Jul 2009
File Category: SQL Server 2008


Product Description
A step-by-step guide to getting the most of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

• Everything you need to create and deliver data-rich reports with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as quickly as possible
• Packed with hands-on-examples to learn and improve your skills
• Connect and report from databases, spreadsheets, XML Data, and more
• No experience of SQL Server Reporting Services required

In Detail

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 is the third generation Microsoft reporting software that is more tightly integrated with SQL Server 2008 than ever before. It provides a complete server-based platform that is designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs, including managed enterprise reporting, special purpose reporting, embedded reporting, and web-based reporting.

Ideal for beginners who need to create reports as quickly as possible, this book will lead you through practical examples to teach you a full range of skills for reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. A series of carefully picked exercises help you practice the most important aspects of report creation. By the end of the book, you will have the confidence to take on the most complex of reports, and be producing reports that will make you the envy of your organization.

What you will learn from this book?

• Install SQL Server 2008 and configure the SQL Server Reporting Services
• Learn the various components and tools that enable end-to-end support for all reporting activities
• Use the report viewer control to get started with the essentials of retrieving and displaying data
• Create a Report Model using the Visual Studio 2008 Template
• Learn to modify reports on a report server and create linked files with report manager
• Embed Microsoft Report Viewer Controls in web and Windows applications
• Create interactive reports with charts and gauges using Report Builder
• Create several kinds of reports with Report Builder 2.0
• Create server reports and report models and deploy them
• Get the full details of available programming interfaces and their usage
• Learn to work with Crystal Reports 2008
• Import reports created using MS Access
• Learn how to use the Programming API, convert Report file types, use command-line utilities and more

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File Name: Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 13 Jul 2009
File Category: Oracle


Product Description
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 payments, and enforce fiscal policies. You will also learn how to use powerful new purchasing and payables features.

• Manage POs and strengthen policy compliance using Oracle Purchasing
• Track documents from the buyers work center and demand workbench
• Centralize requisition creation and approvals
• Create and use sourcing rules for supplier purchases
• Use Oracle Payables to process invoices and handle settlements
• Consolidate and disburse funds using Oracle Payments
• Understand key setups for Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Payables, and Oracle Payments

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File Name: Oracle General Ledger Guide: Implement a Highly Automated Financial Processing System
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 13 Jul 2009
File Category: Oracle


Product Description
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 and flows, reconciling balances, and easing regulatory compliance. You will also discover how to consolidate financial data, process foreign currencies, and implement the brand-new Oracle Subledger Accounting.

• Plan, test, and carry out a new implementation or upgrade
• Work with ledgers, calendars, journals, budgets, and business flows
• Convert and load data from external systems and spreadsheets
• Perform company-wide consolidations
• Render reports using the Financial Statement Generator
• Handle foreign transactions, translations, and revaluations
• Centralize accounting rules using Oracle Subledger Accounting
• Understand implications of setup and implementation decisions

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File Name: Secrets of the Oracle Database
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 13 Jul 2009
File Category: Oracle


Product Description
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 Oracle9i Database through Oracle Database 11g, 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 troubleshooting tasks than you ever thought possible.

Finally, in one place, you have at your fingertips knowledge that previously had to be acquired through years of experience and word of mouth through knowing the right people. What Norbert writes is accurate, well–tested, well–illustrated by clear examples, and sure to improve your ability to make an impact in your day–to–day work with Oracle.



What you’ll learn

• Take advantage of Oracle’s built–in Perl DBI distribution to write applications for monitoring, benchmarking, data extraction, and more.
• Interpret the undocumented, extended trace file format to pinpoint performance problems that TKPROF reports overlook and obscure.
• Get the most out of Statspack by using undocumented report formatting options, accessing its scarcely–documented repository, and integrating with SQL Trace.
• Take control of your instance through the ill–documented ORADEBUG command, enabling you to control processes, trace SQL statements, dump process state, monitor wait events and the call stack, and much more.
• Leverage undocumented features in Oracle’s built–in scheduler to better automate your workload.
• Take full advantage of Transparent Application Failover and Cluster Database Services in a Real Application Cluster environment.

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File Name: Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 13 Jul 2009
File Category: SQL Server 2008


Product Description
Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication is for MS database developers and administrators who want to learn about the different types of replication and those best suited to SQL Server 2008. This book will also cover advanced topics like replication with heterogeneous databases, backup and recovery of replicated databases, database mirroring with replication, log shipping with replication, troubleshooting, plus optimization and tuning. Tools like tablediff, SQLCMD, DTA, SQL Profiler, and Replication Monitor will be discussed to demonstrate the different techniques used in monitoring, administering, and troubleshooting replication.

• Examines the detailed configuration and the internal workings of the different replication types using real–life scenarios
• Covers replication with database mirroring and troubleshooting
• Discusses replication administration using different tools

What you’ll learn

• Configure hierarchical replication: snapshot, transactional and merge, and heterogeneous replication using real–life scenarios.
• Gain insight into the internal workings of the different replication types.
• Master the usage of different tools like tablediff, SQLCMD, DTA, and Replication Monitor in administering replication.
• Perform administration tasks such as backup and recovery, and manage replication with other high–availability techniques like database mirroring and log shipping.
• Conduct optimization and tuning of replicated databases.
• Develop troubleshooting techniques.

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File Name: Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics: Delivering Sales and Marketing Dashboards
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 13 Jul 2009
File Category: SQL Server 2008


Product Description
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) and reporting tools that can be combined on the Microsoft platform to help you generate the results that you need.

The focus of the book is to help you implement a successful business intelligence project of your own. The text discusses many of the required project planning components, provides overviews and examples associated with Microsoft’s BI tools, and gives detailed examples of successful dashboard implementations.



What you’ll learn

• The key functional and technical components of a successful report/dashboard implementation
• What Microsoft tools are provided both within and without SQL Server 2008 to help you achieve an integrated solution
• How to determine whether your performance indicators are correct for your business and how to roll them out to your organization in an effective way

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File Name: Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005
File Submitter: Nanflexal
File Submitted: 27 Apr 2009
File Category: Sql Server


Product Description
Anyone who interacts with today's modern databases needs to know SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving database information. In recent years, the dramatic rise in the popularity of relational databases and multi-user databases has fueled a healthy demand for application developers and others who can write SQL code efficiently and correctly. If you're new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, "Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005" is an ideal step-by-step introduction to this database query tool, with everything you need for programming SQL using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005-one of the most powerful and popular database engines used today. Plenty of books explain database theory. This guide lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. You don't need prior database knowledge, or even prior computer knowledge.

Based on a popular university-level course designed by authors Sikha Saha Bagui and Richard Walsh Earp, "Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005" starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. Every topic, concept, and idea comes with examples of code and output, along with exercises to help you gain proficiency in SQL and SQL Server 2005. With this book, you'll learn:

Beginning SQL commands, such as how and where to type an SQL query, and how to create, populate, alter and delete tables

How to customize SQL Server 2005's settings and about SQL Server 2005's functions

About joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables

Query development, the use of views and other derived structures, and simple set operations

Subqueries, aggregate functions and correlatedsubqueries, as well as indexes and constraints that can be added to tables in SQL Server 2005

Whether you're an undergraduate computer science or MIS student, a self-learner who has access to the new Microsoft database, or work for your company's IT department, "Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005" will get you up to speed on SQL in no time.

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Programming Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008




Part I: Core Fundamentals
In this part:
Chapter 1 Overview
Chapter 2 T-SQL Enhancements
Chapter 3 Exploring SQL CLR
Chapter 4 Server Management
Chapter 5 Security in SQL Server 2008
Part II: Beyond Relational
In this part:
Chapter 6 XML and the Relational Database
Chapter 7 Hierarchical Data and the Relational Database
Chapter 8 Using FILESTREAM for Unstructured Data Storage
Chapter 9 Geospatial Data Types
Part III: Reach Technologies
In this part:
Chapter 10 The Microsoft Data Access Machine
Chapter 11 The Many Facets of .NET Data Binding
Chapter 12 Transactions
Chapter 13 Developing Occasionally Connected Systems
Part IV: Business Intelligence
In this part:
Chapter 14 Data Warehousing
Chapter 15 Basic OLAP
Chapter 16 Advanced OLAP
Chapter 17 OLAP Queries, Tools, and Application Development
Chapter 18 Expanding Your Business Intelligence with Data Mining
Chapter 19 Reporting Services

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Oracle Application Server 10g Administration HandbookJohn Garmany
Donald K. Burleson
McGraw-Hill/Osborne



Contents:

1 Oracle Application Server 10g Architecture and Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 The Oracle Application Server 10g Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3 Installing Oracle Application Server 10g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4 Using the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5 Web Cache Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6 Using J2EE in the Application Server 10g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7 Oracle Containers for J2EE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
8 Database Connections and TopLink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
9 High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
10 Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
11 Backup and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
12 Oracle Application Server 10g Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

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Troubleshooting Oracle Performance
By Christian Antognini


PART 1 Foundations

CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 Performance Problems.. . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 2 Key Concepts ..13
PART 2 Identification
CHAPTER 3 Identifying Performance Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
PART 3 Query Optimizer
CHAPTER 4 System and Object Statistics.. 109
CHAPTER 5 Configuring the Query Optimizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
CHAPTER 6 Execution Plans.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
CHAPTER 7 SQL Tuning Techniques.. . . . . . 247
PART 4 Optimization
CHAPTER 8 Parsing... . . . . 309
CHAPTER 9 Optimizing Data Access.. . . . . . 339
CHAPTER 10 Optimizing Joins.. . . . . . . . . . . . 409
CHAPTER 11 Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization. . . . 459
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing the Physical Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
PART 5 Appendixes
APPENDIX A Downloadable Files.. . . . . . . . . . 551
APPENDIX B Bibliography..563
INDEX.... . . . . 567

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Maintaining SQL Server 2005 high availability in a global information environment is the database administrator’s greatest practical challenge. Availability is as much about people and processes as it is about technology. Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability covers the technology, people, processes, and real-world best practices for planning, deploying, administering, and maintaining highly available SQL Server 2005 instances.

With years of experience as a database consultant and production DBA, Allan Hirt provides in-depth, detailed advice on what it takes to ensure SQL Server high availability for businesses of any size. This is not an academic text; it’s not based on lab experiments, but on real-world experience. This book is a dramatic update and revision of the author’s previous best-seller on SQL Server 2000. It gives sound guidance to DBAs and system administrators on how to really get the job done.

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Unless you are working at a very advanced level, this is the only SQL book you will ever need. The authors have taken the mystery out of complex queries and explained principles and techniques with such clarity that a “Mere Mortal” will indeed be empowered to perform the superhuman. Do not walk past this book!
–Graham Mandeno, Database Consultant

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals provides a step-by-step, easy-to-read introduction to writing SQL queries. It includes hundreds of examples with detailed explanations. This book provides the tools you need to understand, modify, and create SQL queries
–Keith W. Hare, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG3–the International SQL Standards Committee

I learned SQL primarily from the first edition of this book, and I am pleased to see a second edition of this book so that others can continue to benefit from its organized presentation of the language. Starting from how to design your tables so that SQL can be effective (a common problem for database beginners), and then continuing through the various aspects of SQL construction and capabilities, the reader can become a moderate expert upon completing the book and its samples. Learning how to convert a question in English into a meaningful SQL statement will greatly facilitate your mastery of the language. Numerous examples from real life will help you visualize how to use SQL to answer the questions about the data in your database. Just one of the “watch out for this trap” items will save you more than the cost of the book when you avoid that problem when writing your queries. I highly recommend this book if you want to tap the full potential of your database.
–Kenneth D. Snell, Ph.D., Database Designer/Programmer

I don’t think they do this in public schools any more, and it is a shame, but do you remember in the seventh and eighth grades when you learned to diagram a sentence? Those of you who do may no longer remember how you did it, but all of you do write better sentences because of it. John Viescas and Mike Hernandez must have remembered because they take everyday English queries and literally translate them into SQL. This is an important book for all database designers. It takes the complexity of mathematical Set Theory and of First Order Predicate Logic, as outlined in E. F. Codd’s original treatise on relational database design, and makes it easy for anyone to understand. If you want an elementary- through intermediate-level course on SQL, this is the one book that is a requirement, no matter how many others you buy.
–Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP

Even in this day of wizards and code generators, successful database developers still require a sound knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL, the standard language for communicating with most database systems). In this book, John and Mike do a marvelous job of making what’s usually a dry and difficult subject come alive, presenting the material with humor in a logical manner, with plenty of relevant examples. I would say that this book should feature prominently in the collection on the bookshelf of all serious developers, except that I’m sure it’ll get so much use that it won’t spend much time on the shelf!
– Doug Steele, Microsoft Access Developer and author

Over the last several decades, SQL has evolved from a language known only to computer specialists to a widely used international standard of the computer industry. The number of new applications deployed each year using SQL now totals in the millions. If you are accessing corporate information from the Internet or from an internal network, you are probably using SQL. This new edition of SQL Queries for Mere Mortals helps new users learn the foundations of SQL queries, and is an essential reference guide for intermediate and advanced users.

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Although MySQL’s source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, it’s essentially closed to you if you don’t understand it. In this book, Sasha Pachev — a former member of the MySQL Development Team — provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner workings of this powerful database. You’ll go right to heart of the database to learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration options, and much more.

The core of Understanding MySQL Internals begins with an Architecture Overview that provides a brief introduction of how the different components of MySQL work together. You then learn the steps for setting up a working compilable copy of the code that you can change and test at your pleasure. Other sections of the book cover:

Core server classes, structures, and API
The communication protocol between the client and the server
Configuration variables, the controls of the server; includes a tutorial on how to add your own
Thread-based request handling — understanding threads and how they are used in MySQL
An overview of MySQL storage engines

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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 technology’s 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 organized into sets. Operations from logic and set theory can be applied to existing sets of truths to derive new sets of truths. Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals introduces you to this way of thinking, to the logic and set theory that underlies relational database technology. All this may sound abstract now, but there are profound benefits from the deeper understanding you’ll gain from this book. You’ll learn to
Become a better database designer. You’ll make fewer mistakes, and your designs will be more flexible in response to changing data needs.
Use the expressive power of mathematics to precisely specify designs and business rules.
Communicate effectively about design using the universal language of mathematics.
Develop and write complex SQL statements with confidence.
Avoid pitfalls and problems from common relational bugaboos such as null values and duplicate rows.

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  Let SQL Hacks serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and SQL Hacks is the must-have book for you. Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/10608549/OReilly.SQL.Hacks.Nov.2006.rar.html

  As a member of the Microsoft Office suite, Access 2000 is frequently deployed by users in need of immediate database solutions. Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 24 Hours helps the complete Access 2000 neophyte gain proficiency with this powerful–yet difficult-to-learn–data management tool. Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/11477520/tyacc2kin24h.rar

  Compared to industrial-strength database products such as Microsoft’s SQL Server, Access is a breeze to use. It runs on PCs rather than servers and is ideal for small- to mid-sized businesses and households. But Access is still intimidating to learn. It doesn’t help that each new version crammed in yet another set of features; so [...]

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  As a document imaging database, Concordance 8 gives you the ability to search through otherwise unmanageable amounts of data to locate just the precise records necessary for the case at hand. The product also boasts extensive case analysis and organization features. This leaves you free to organize and manipulate crucial documents as you choose. Download Link: [...]

  Many Java developers tend to treat Oracle as a “black box”; as a consequence, developers tend to write incorrect, non-scalable code. If you don’t intimately know how Oracle works and expects you to program, you might avoid Oracle extensions to the standard for fear of your code becoming database-dependent. If you give in to that [...]

  SQL is the ANSI-standard language for accessing and manipulating relational databases. Anyone (programmers, administrators, or designers) who work with a relational databases need to understand the SQL language. While most books on the market do not properly cover the basics, this book differs: it explains fundamentals in detail, supported by realistic examples.You will gain full [...]

Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (November 24, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849318548
ISBN-13: 978-0849318542

multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet, clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global communication, but lacks the framework to let the various players in a system interact. MPEG-21 closes this gap by establishing an infrastructure for a distributed multimedia framework, allowing for the creation, modification, viewing, and communication of digital items among all participants within an MPEG-21 agreement.

AUTHOR : Donald K. Burleson, John Paul Cook, Joe Celko PUBLISHER : Rampant TechPress iSBN : B0000DYXK5

Hardcover: 720 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (April 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805840818
ISBN-13: 978-0805840810

Created with the input of a distinguished International Board of the foremost authorities in data mining from academia and industry, The Handbook of Data Mining presents comprehensive coverage of data mining concepts and techniques. Algorithms, methodologies, management issues, and tools are all illustrated through engaging examples and real-world applications to ease understanding of the materials.

Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (September 25, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471460540
ISBN-13: 978-0471460541

• First title to ever present soft computing approaches and their application in data mining, along with the traditional hard-computing approaches
• Addresses the principles of multimedia data compression techniques (for image, video, text) and their role in data mining
• Discusses principles and classical algorithms on string matching and their role in data mining

Hardcover: 483 pages
Publisher: IGI Global (February 4, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591400511
ISBN-13: 978-1591400516

Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges presents an overview of the state of the art approaches in this new and multidisciplinary field of data mining. The primary objective of this book is to explore the myriad issues regarding data mining, specifically focusing on those areas that explore new methodologies or examine case studies. This book contains numerous chapters written by an international team of forty-four experts representing leading scientists and talented young scholars from seven different countries.

Hardcover: 1232 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (September 30, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 084937006X
ISBN-13: 978-0849370069

Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into the hundreds of terabytes.

Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (April 28, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072228857
ISBN-13: 978-0072228854

Here is the foundation upon which you can build your relational database design and programming, then apply those skills to any SQL-based product. Carefully organized for beginners, you’ll learn step-by-step how to create a database, create tables, enforce data integrity, query and modify data, and implement advanced data access techniques.

Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 7, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471202436
ISBN-13: 978-0471202431

Written by the authors of the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) specification, this book is the official and authoritative developer’s guide
Provides a comprehensive look at how to develop database and data warehouse applications using the Common Warehouse Metamodel
Covers the full development lifecycle including application design
implementation, and deployment
Companion Web site includes updates on the technology, descriptions of tools, and links to vendor sites

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Rampant Techpress; Stg edition (April 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0974435538
ISBN-13: 978-0974435534

An instructor’s guide for teaching Oracle DBA certification candidates, this book is highly technical and written for Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA instructors who want to ensure that their students successfully pass their Oracle OCP certification exam. Covering those OCP topics that students find the most challenging, instructors will find targeted Oracle OCP testing content, test taking tips, and actual OCP test content. Other test topics covered include database architectures, design review meetings, software installation, database objects, backup and recovery, and tuning and performance.

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (August 29, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072229659
ISBN-13: 978-0072229653

Create and manage a robust Access database using this advanced guide. You’ll get full coverage of all the new features, including Smart Tags and enhanced XML support. Learn to write advanced queries with the query wizard and the design view, import and export data, program with Web Matrix and .NET, and build Access Data Projects with SQL Server. Database backup and security issues are also covered.

Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Wiley (August 8, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471324213
ISBN-13: 978-0471324218

At last, a balanced approach to data warehousing that leverages the techniques pioneered by Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon
Since its groundbreaking inception, the approach to understanding data warehousing has been split into two mindsets: Ralph Kimball, who pioneered the use of dimensional modeling techniques for building the data warehouse, and Bill Inmon, who introduced the Corporate Information Factory and leads those who believe in using relational modeling techniques for the data warehouse. Mastering Data Warehouse Design successfully merges Inmon’s data ware- house design philosophies with Kimball’s data mart design philosophies to provide you with a compelling and complete overview of exactly what is involved in designing and building a sustainable and extensible data warehouse.

Paperback: 1464 pages
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition (October 3, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764539868
ISBN-13: 978-0764539862

The most comprehensive reference on this popular database management tool, fully updated with the new features of Access “X” including increased use of XML and Web services
Explores the new, tighter integration with SharePoint and BizTalk in Office “X” that enables greater flexibility for gathering and manipulating data

Hardcover: 745 pages
Publisher: Apress (July 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159059780X
ISBN-13: 978-1590597804

Maintaining SQL Server 2005 high availability in a global information environment is the database administrator’s greatest practical challenge. Availability is as much about people and processes as it is about technology. Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability covers the technology, people, processes, and real-world best practices for planning, deploying, administering, and maintaining highly available SQL Server 2005 instances.

Paperback: 775 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (January 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072263504
ISBN-13: 978-0072263503

The Ultimate Microsoft Office Access 2007 Resource

Build a highly responsive a database so you can track, report, and share information and make more informed decisions. This comprehensive resource shows you how to design and develop custom Access 2007 databases—even if you have little or no programming experience. You’ll learn to collect data from a variety of sources, share it securely with others, and integrate it with other Office applications.

Publisher Apress Author(s) Steve Shaw ISBN 1590595246 Release Date 04 August 2006 Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the Grid architecture are Oracle’s strategy for scaling out enterprise systems to cope with bigger workloads and more users. Many books limit themselves by conceptualizing and theorizing about RAC technology, but this book is the first to portray implementing and administering an [...]

Publisher Apress Author(s) James Luetkehoelter ISBN 1590599675 Release Date 24 March 2008 The process of disaster recovery involves mitigating the likelihood of a disaster and returning the system to a normal state. This book shows you how to implement an effective disaster recovery strategy for SQL Server 2005 databases. With the arrival of SQL Server 2005, you have access [...]

Publisher Springer-Verlag Author(s) Dursun Delen ISBN 3540769161 Release Date 01 February 2008 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 [...]

Publisher McGraw-Hill/Osborne Author(s) Arup Nanda ISBN 0071496610 Release Date 05 November 2007 Your Must-Have Guide to Everything New in Oracle Database 11g Realize the full potential of Oracle Database 11g with help from the experts. Written by Robert G. Freeman, and with insightful commentary throughout from Arup Nanda, this Oracle Press guide offers full details on the architectural changes, database [...]

Publisher Springer-Verlag Author(s) Sushil Jajodia ISBN 0387485325 Release Date 30 November 2007 The Handbook of Database Security: Applications & Trends, an edited volume by renowned researchers within data security, provides an up-to-date overview of data security models, techniques, and architectures in a variety of data management applications and settings. This edited volume represents the most comprehensive work on numerous [...]

Publisher Apress Author(s) Brennan Stehling ISBN 1590598601 Release Date 21 September 2007 Pro ASP.NET for SQL Server: High Performance Data Access for Web Developers explains how to use ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 most efficiently together. It covers all crucial performance issues and illustrates optimal techniques with enterprise-quality development. Performance is always an issue, and optimizing database access is [...]

Publisher Digital Press Author(s) Gavin JT Powell ISBN 1555583199 Release Date 13 April 2007 Database professionals will find that this new edition aids in mastering the latest version of Microsofts SQL Server. Developers and database administrators (DBAs) use SQL on a daily basis in application development and the subsequent problem solving and fine tuning. Answers to SQL issues can [...]

Publisher Apress Author(s) Himanshu Yadava ISBN 1590596722 Release Date 08 October 2007 The Berkeley DB Book is a practical guide to the intricacies of the Berkeley DB. This book covers in-depth the complex design issues that are mostly only touched on in terse footnotes within the dense Berkeley DB reference manual. It explains the technology at a higher level [...]

Publisher McGraw-Hill/Osborne Author(s) Rich Long ISBN 0071496076 Release Date 05 November 2007 Build and manage a scalable storage infrastructure with Oracle Automatic Storage Management Streamline data management and provisioning using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and the detailed information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press resource. Written by a team of database experts, Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & [...]