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Title: Beginning ASP Databases Publisher: Wrox Press Authors: John Kauffman, Kevin Spencer, Thearon Willis, John Kauffman Rating: 5/5  I've been looking for a good book on web database programming, but since now have had to settle on learning from others and my own mistakes. This is a great book to help you get a jumpstart on creating interactive web databases! It focuses mostly on Access, but it also explains SQL Server at the same time. As an advanced ASP developer and an intermediate web database programmer, just by reading the first 6 chapters the first day I got it, I can already see how this will save you alot of time as it points out common mistakes, while also suggesting optimization techniques. I also like the thorough explanation he gives throughout his examples.
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Title: Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide Publisher: Brady Games Authors: Dan Birlew Rating: 1/5  I found more help in one of the Game magazines.A guide such as this should tell you about side quests and item characteristics. This guide misses too much.It refers you to the On-line site which doesn't work right. Read the message boards there and they agree. Don't buy this unless you have nothing else to help you walk through.
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Title: Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Adrienne Tannenbaum Rating: 5/5 Those of us that have to implement something will really appreciate this book. THere are others on the market that introduce us to metadata concepts, but leave the implementation to vendors. Some of us know that this can fall short. If you already have a vendor product and want to improve your situation, consider this book as a starting point. It covers a realistic definition of metadata in terms of not just data, but the world around data (programs, files, business rules, physical database catalogs, for example). Metadata Solutions also shows the reader how all of these perspectives are necessary in order to be successful. Metadata can take on two flavors in today's world. The popular view uses it as a detailed description of data warehouse data. Ms Tannenbaum does not necessarily fault that viewpoint, but shows us how to some degree we are participating in a potential disaster by keeping copies of metadata that may already exist in a standalone data warehouse product. Likewise, a centralized metadata repository might also create the same problem. Ms. Tannenbaum likes the portal approach, but she does show examples of virtually all metadata solutions, from separate standalone database, through XML transfer, through a fully integrated portal-based "search and retrieve" solution. Is this for managers? Yes...but they don't need to read the whole thing..(in fact she even gives reading paths). Is this for data people? Definitely. Is this for developers? definitely. But most important, it is for anyone who thinks they know what metadata is about....surprise!
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Title: Learn to Program with Java Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Authors: John Smiley Rating: 4/5  This is an excellent book for anyone with limited programming experience who wants a gentle introduction to the world of Java - as the title of the book suggests, you are literally learning to program using Java as the teaching tool. So those reviewers complaining that the book is too basic are perhaps missing the point. That aside, the book is right on the money for the audience it is targeted for - those people who lack programming experience. With plenty of detailed explanations, many of the 'dumb' questions answered that other more advanced books skim over, and the use of one large program that is worked on throughout the book, I would recommend Learn to Program with Java whole-heartedly to anyone at novice level struggling to come to grips with Java. The author's 'classroom novel' style of writing appeals to some and not to others (by the end of the book, I could have cheerfully strangled some of the students mentioned), but it is an effective technique regardless. There were a couple of minor mistakes in the book that I received, but they should be fixed by now (and when I emailed Professor Smiley pointing them out, he not only replied the next day but was most courteous in thanking me for the feedback - two thumbs up in customer relations for the Prof!) All in all, this book achieves what it sets out to do - help beginning programmers learn the basics of the Java language with confidence. After completing this book, you should then have the background to feel comfortable with the more advanced topics presented in other Java books.
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