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Title: The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses Publisher: Wiley Authors: Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite Rating: 1/5  Sorry to say! But I'm a student specializing in Data warehousing and Ralph Kimball is certainly not getting to any point in The Lifecycle Toolkit! 1. He gives to many unstructured examples!2. He never gets to the point!3. Ralph restates and contradicts himself again and again!4. He could have summarized the book in 100 pages ( but then would not have made any $$$)5. The book might just discourage most people from Data warehousing! And the list can go on and on! Sorry Ralph better luck next time
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: A. Keyton Weissinger Rating: 4/5  I initially purchased this book because I had to do some database integration work with a product that was ASP-based. I hadn't used ASP before, but assumed it would be like any other programming language. My experience with Nutshell books is that they provide good summaries for this sort of thing, and "ASP in a Nutshell" is no exception. Most of the methods are shown with short examples -- which is great. Unfortunately, not all of the options to the methods are supported, even on MSFT-based environments, which I assume would be the dominant consumers of ASP. It would have been beneficial to indicate these a little more explicitly. The book gives a good overview of the Response, Request, and Session objects. It makes an earnest attempt to cover Active Data Objects (ADO), however, as the author concedes, a thorough exploration of that is another book entirely. This is unfortunate because the primary reason people use ASP is to connect to a back-end database. There is a reference to another, forthcoming book, "ADO: The Definitive Guide," by Jason T. Roff, which purports to cover these "advanced" topics. Although a "ASP in a Nutshell" is a competent reference, the Roff book (when published) may have been a better solution for my particular needs.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Server+ Study Guide Publisher: Sybex Inc Authors: Brad Hryhoruk, Diana Bartley, Quentin Docter Rating: 4/5 Use this book as a supplementary book in your exam prep. The Certification Bible is the daddy!
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Title: How Computers Work, Seventh Edition Publisher: Que Authors: Ron White, Timothy Edward Downs Rating: 1/5 I have to agree with the numerous individuals who bothered to write a review. The material is presented in an excellent manner. I feel the "picture-book" appearance, as a Huntsville reviewer writes, IS appropriate for the whole mission of the book: to simplify and clarify the inner workings of what may seem scarily complex to a lot of people. Computer technology is too vast for even the experts to know everything about it. Contradictory to what "Very Disappointed" from Irvine, CA has to say (expl-A-nations), this is a must for anyone who uses a computer.
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