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SQL in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:38 AM PST

SQL in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Book Description

For programmers, analysts, and administrators, in a is the essential reference for the language used in today’s most popular products. This new edition clearly documents every SQL according to the latest ANSI standard, and details how those commands are implemented in 2008, 11g, and the 5.1 and 8.3 products. You’ll also get a concise overview of the Relational System (RDBMS) model, and a clear-cut explanation of foundational RDBMS concepts — all packed into a succinct, comprehensive, and easy-to-use format. This book provides:

  • Background on the Relational Database Model, including current and previous SQL standards
  • Fundamental concepts necessary for understanding relational databases and SQL commands
  • An alphabetical reference to SQL statements, according to the SQL2003 ANSI standard
  • The implementation of each command by , , , and
  • An alphabetical reference of the ANSI SQL2003 functions, as well as the vendor implementations
  • Platform-specific functions unique to each implementation

Beginning where vendor documentation ends, SQL in a distills the experiences of professional database administrators and developers who have used SQL variants to support complex enterprise applications. Whether SQL is new to you, or you’ve been using SQL since its earliest days, you’ll get lots of new tips and techniques in this book.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. SQL History and Implementations
Chapter 2. Foundational Concepts
Chapter 3. SQL Statement Command Reference
Chapter 4. SQL Functions
Appendix. Shared and Platform-Specific Keywords

Book Details

  • Paperback: 592 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 3rd Edition (November 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596518846
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596518844
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Perl for Oracle DBAs

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:38 AM PST

Perl for Oracle DBAs

Book Description

is a very powerful tool for administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning databases. Whether you’re responsible for 9i, 8i, or earlier databases, you’ll find an invaluable addition to your arsenal.

You don’t need to be a expert to use the excellent applications and scripts described in for Oracle DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about , provides a wealth of ready-to-use scripts developed especially for Oracle DBAs, and suggests many resources for further exploration. The book covers:

  • The Perl language — an introduction to Perl, its rich history and culture, and its extensive text processing and data transformation capabilities.
  • The Perl/Oracle — Detailed information about Perl DBI, DBD::Oracle, the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle::OCI, extproc_perl, and mod_perl, the modules that allow Perl programs to communicate with Oracle databases.
  • Perl applications for Oracle DBAs — Profiles of the best Perl applications available for use and customization by Oracle DBAs: Perl/Tk, OraExplain, StatsView, Orac, DDL::Oracle, SchemaDiff, Senora, DBD::Chart, SchemaView-Plus, Oracletool, Karma, Embperl, and Mason.
  • The Perl Database (PDBA) Toolkit — a comprehensive suite of specialized, ready-to-use scripts designed to help Oracle DBAs perform both routine and special-purpose administrative tasks: monitoring the Oracle alert log and databases, creating and managing Oracle user accounts, maintaining indexes and extents, extracting DDL and data, troubleshooting and tuning database problems, and much more.

The book also explains how Oracle DBAs and developers can extend the toolkit and solve their own database administration problems using Perl.

Table of Contents
Part I: Introducing Perl for Oracle
Chapter 1. Perl Meets Oracle
Chapter 2. Installing Perl

Part II: Extending Perl
Chapter 3. Perl GUI Extensions
Chapter 4. Perl Web Extensions
Chapter 5. Embedding Perl into Apache with mod_perl
Chapter 6. Embedded Perl Web Scripting
Chapter 7. Invoking the Oracle Call Interface with Oracle::OCI
Chapter 8. Embedding Perl into

Part III: The Perl DBA Toolkit
Chapter 9. Installing the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 10. Performing Routine DBA Tasks with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 11. Monitoring the Database with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 12. Building a Database Repository with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 13. Extending the PDBA Toolkit

Part IV: Appendixes
Appendix A. The Essential Guide to Perl
Appendix B. The Essential Guide to Perl DBI
Appendix . The Essential Guide to Regular Expressions
Appendix D. The Essential Guide to Perl Data Munging

Book Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596002106
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596002107
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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:37 AM PST

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide

Book Description

makes headlines, but how does it ? This concise guide explains what’s different about and how those differences can improve your company’s bottom line. Whether you’re an executive plotting the next move, a small owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, : A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today’s Web.

This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 , or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing , means creating places where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned “word of mouth” becomes hypergrowth.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how:

  • , a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value
  • made with a model based on free , and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage of
  • network effects can support a business-ever wonder how grew so quickly?
  • Businesses like tap into the Web as a source of indirect revenue, using creative new approaches to monetize the investments they’ve made in the Web

Written by Amy Shuen, an authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide explains how to transform your business by looking at specific practices for integrating Web 2.0 with what you do. If you’re executing business strategy and want to know how the Web is changing business, this book is for you.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Users Create Value
Chapter 2. Networks Multiply Effects
Chapter 3. People Build Connections
Chapter 4. Companies Capitalize Competences
Chapter 5. New Recombines with Old
Chapter 6. Businesses Incorporate Strategies

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596529961
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596529963
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Hack This

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST

Hack This

Book Description

Join today's new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the world of hackerspaces: your invitation to share knowledge, master tools, work together, build amazing stuff–and have a flat-out blast doing it.

Twin Cities Maker co-founder John Baichtal explains it all: what hackerspaces are, how they work, who runs them, what they're building—and how you can join (or start!) one. Next, he walks you through 24 of today's best hackerspace projects…everything from robotic grilled-cheese sandwich-makers to devices that make music with zaps of electricity. Every project's packed with color photos, explanations, lists of resources and tools, and instructions for getting started on your own similar project so you can DIY!

JUST SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT INCLUDE…

  • Kung-fu fighting robots
  • Home-brewed Geiger counter
  • TransAtlantic balloon
  • -monitoring Christmas tree
  • Sandwich-making
  • Interactive Space Invaders mural
  • CNC mill that carves designs into wood, plastic and metal
  • Telepresence that runs an Internet classroom
  • Toy cars that are ridden by people
  • Bronze-melting blast furnace
  • Laptop-controlled robot fashioned from a wheelchair
  • DIY book scanner

JOHN BAICHTAL is a founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Twin  ities Maker has its own rented warehouse complete with a welding station, woodshop, classroom, and ham radio transmitter. Baichtal has written dozens of articles, including pieces for AKE, the D&D publication Kobold Quarterly, and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has contributed to Wired.com's GeekDad blog for four years and blogged at Make: for two, publishing more than 1,500 posts during that time. He is now writing a book about Lego.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Que (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789748975
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789748973
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Content Marketing

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:07 AM PST

Content Marketing

Book Description

If you have a , a blog, or even a or presence, you are a publisher. Think like one: build a digital content strategy that embraces words, images and multimedia to systematically enhance consumer engagement and conversion rates. In Content , world-renowned digital content expert Rebecca Lieb offers all the detailed, actionable guidance you’ll need. Lieb guides you through planning what you’ll say , how and where you’ll say it, how often you’ll communicate, and how you’ll measure your effectiveness. She offers practical guidance for “listening” to conversations about your brand, products, and services, responding more effectively, and effectively informing those conversations.

You’ll learn how to use your digital content strategy to shape , branding, PR, , customer and media relations, blog content, media initiatives, and of course, your . Lieb drills down to offer detailed, actionable advice for issues such as choosing distribution channels making sure you don’t run out of things to say making your content “findable” promoting two-way dialogue. Using her techniques, you can market far more effectively and personally build loyalty as you inform and entertain customers and reduce or even eliminate advertising costs. Think about it: why buy media when, today, you are the media?

Table of Contents
1. What’s Content Marketing, Anyway?
2. Why Is Content Important Now?
3. You’re a Publisher: Think Like One
4. Finding Your Voice
5. Do You Need a Celebrity, Spokes-Character or Mascot?
6. What Kind of Content Are You?
7. Overview of Content Channels
8. Getting Tactical: Content Nuts and Bolts
9. Content and
10. Content and PR
11. Content and Advertising
12. Content and Offline Stuff
13. Content and Customer Service
14. Content and Reputation
15. Content and Information
16. Content Distribution and Dissemination
17. User-Generated Content
18. Content Curation
19. Whose Job Is Content?
20. Content Audit
21. How to Analyze Content Needs
22. The Content Workflow
23. It’s Never Over – Post-Publication
24. Reuse, Updating, Translation, Migration to Other Platforms
25. Listening and Responding
26. ReMake/ReModel: Repurposing Content
27. Yes, But is it Working? Content Metrics

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Que (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789748371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789748379
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Zero to 100,000

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:07 AM PST

Zero to 100,000

Book Description

"I work in digital media publishing, yet I've struggled, like most of the world, to understand how to make media work for me. Sarah-Jayne and Dean tackled the challenge with an energy that has to be seen to be believed. These two are now my #1 source of information and have provided simple and effective strategies that have helped me to monetize media."
—Vince Holton, Publisher, Incisor.TV

"A fantastic, timely, and enjoyable book with serious appeal. Great work from beginning to end. I can't recommend it enough."
—2morrowKnight, Huffington Post

"Zero to 100,000: Media Tips and Tricks for Small Businesses makes it so easy to understand the way to successfully take your into the 'real world' of media! It both entertained and educated me. I would recommend this book to my friends, business associates, and to educational institutions. Brilliantly done!"
—Debra Cincioni, @MomsofAmerica on

"From building a bigger presence for yourself or your business, this book gets you in on the ground floor, lays the foundation, and helps you get a jump start on becoming a social media success. And the advice is real, not just from Sarah-Jayne and Dean, who are awesome, but from several other success stories they explain in the book. In a word, this book is useful."
—Jason Falls, CEO of Social Media Explorer and author of No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media

"Leveraging social media is vital for businesses of all sizes, but it is a quirky and nuanced world where getting it wrong can have disastrous consequences. @GrattonGirl is one of the people I see in the social space who really understands the art of communicating with her audience. If you want to know how to connect with the crowd effectively through social media, I can think of no one better to hold your hand on that journey than Sarah-Jayne and Dean Gratton."
—Kate Russell, Technology Reporter, BBC and App Reviewer

YOUR COMPLETE PLAN FOR FINDING 100,000 NEW FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS, AND CUSTOMERS!

Close your eyes. Now, envision 100,000 people who are passionate about you, your business, and your brand! We're talking about people who buy your stuff, and then tell their friends how incredibly great you are—without being paid to do it. People who follow your every move, look to you for guidance, and can't wait to hear what you're up to next.

Your 100,000 people. Your two football stadiums full of cheering fans. They're out there, looking for you. Here's your easy, low-cost social media plan for finding them…connecting with them…giving them what they want—so they can make you stunningly, incredibly successful!

10 STEPS TO YOUR 100,000
(with all the details, examples, and expert advice you'll ever need)

1. Listen first, engage second
2. Craft your most authentic voice
3. Find and attract influencers
4. Don't be a narcissist (you know what we mean)
5. Build community that lasts
6. Freshen up your brand
7. Become an electrifying "social conductor"
8. Promote across platforms
9. Be the fittest, be the survivor
10. Measure your (ever-growing) success

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Que (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789748002
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789748003
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