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Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 DTS Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Carl Rabeler Rating: 3/5  I have gone through half the book. The good part:Walks you through many areas step-by-step. Repeats steps in other excerises. You will learn a lot. The bad part:The book doesn't teach you a process from the making of a connection to processing a cube. I need to Extact, Transform, & Load, and then process a cube. The book teaches ETL. Try another book. TC
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Title: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Publisher: Anchor Authors: SIMON SINGH Rating: 5/5  This in an excellent book that shows how messages were written, sent and intercepted through different ages, what were the implications of being/not being able to decipher them and what is the latest in security. It is fascinating and you can't put it down. The only thing to be aware of is that for the last third of the book you must at least like computers.
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Title: Programming C#, 4th Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Jesse Liberty Rating: 5/5 I've read some of Jesse's other books on C++, and found his writing style very approachable. While C# certainly has less of C++'s notorious complexity, it's a new language with a huge amount of extensions and API's (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WebForms etc.) The book covers all of them in the same approachable style, and gives the reader a good survey of the dot-Net platform beyond the language. If Microsoft follows through on their standardization plans, I think C# is going to be a very important language for both Windows and non-Windows coders. O'Reilly's take on it will definitely help developers interested in making it part of their toolbox.
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Title: Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates Rating: 5/5 This book has a lot of reviews, so I was asking myself, what extra information I can add, which nobody has covered in their reviews? To add more useful information, let me give you some relevant facts about me; I hold -until this moment- six professional certificates, they are: 1) IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 2) IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server V5.0 3) IBM Certified for e-business - Solution Technologist 4) IBM Certified Solution Designer - DB2 Business Intelligence v8 5) Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Associate 6) Sun Certified Java Programmer I am mentioning this only to show that I have great experience in professional exams, and I have read a lot of certification materials in my years of experience, which allow me to judge whether the preparation book is good or not. So, Among all the certification books I have read, I found this book the best certification preparation guide I have ever read. The best points for this book are: 1) Exam questions resemblance, the real exam questions are very very similar to the questions of the book. 2) The two bonus exams are very much like the real exam. 3) Excellent coverage of all the exam objectives. 4) Well organization of objectives' coverage. 5) The brilliant "Exam Watch" tips, which warn you of exam tricks. Note 1: This book is not meant for learning Java, and you should know the syntax of the language prior to reading the book; the writers menion this clearly as their focus is on the exam only. Note 2: My review applies to the Sun Certified Programmer exam only; the developer exam is not covered.
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