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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:59 AM PDT

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

Book Description

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 lets you learn from the best in the business—64 SQL Server MVPs offer completely new content in this second volume on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization techniques…and more.

To become an MVP requires deep knowledge and impressive skill. Together, the 64 MVPs who wrote this book bring about 1,000 years of experience in SQL Server administration, development, training, and design. This incredible book captures their expertise and passion in 60 concise, hand-picked chapters.

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 picks up where the first volume leaves off, with completely new content on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization. The chapters fall into five parts: Architecture and Design, Database Administration, Database Development, Performance Tuning and Optimization, and Business Intelligence.

What’s Inside

  • Discovering servers with PowerShell
  • Using regular expressions in SSMS
  • Tuning the Transaction Log for OLTP
  • Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data
  • Real-time BI
  • Much more

This unique book is your chance to learn from the best in the business. It offers valuable insights for readers of all levels.

Table of Contents
PART 1 ARCHITECTURE

  1. Where are my keys?
  2. “Yes, we are all individuals” A look at uniqueness in the world of SQL
  3. Architectural growth pains
  4. Characteristics of a great relational database
  5. Storage design considerations
  6. Generalization: the key to a well-designed schema

PART 2 DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

  1. Increasing availability through testing
  2. Page restores
  3. Capacity planning
  4. Discovering your servers with PowerShell and SMO
  5. Will the real Mr. Smith please stand up?
  6. Build your own SQL Server 2008 performance dashboard
  7. SQL Server cost recovery
  8. Best practice compliance with Policy-Based Management
  9. Using SQL Server Management Studio to the fullest
  10. Multiserver management and Utility Explorer – best tools for the DBA
  11. Top 10 SQL Server admin student misconceptions
  12. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements

PART 3 DATABASE DEVELOPMENT

  1. T-SQL: bad habits to kick
  2. Death by UDF
  3. Using regular expressions in SSMS
  4. SQL Server Denali: what’s coming next in T-SQL
  5. Creating your own data type
  6. Extracting data with regular expressions
  7. Relational division
  8. SQL FILESTREAM: to BLOB or not to BLOB
  9. Writing unit tests for Transact-SQL
  10. Getting asynchronous with Service Broker
  11. Effective use of HierarchyId
  12. Let Service Broker help you scale your application

PART 4 PERFORMANCE TUNING AND OPTIMIZATION

  1. Hardware 201: selecting and sizing database server hardware
  2. Parameter sniffing: your best friend…except when it isn’t
  3. Investigating the plan cache
  4. What are you waiting for? An introduction to waits and queues
  5. You see sets, and I see loops
  6. Performance-tuning the transaction log for OLTP workloads
  7. Strategies for unraveling tangled code
  8. Using PAL to analyze SQL Server performance
  9. Tuning JDBC for SQL Server

PART 5 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

  1. Creating a formal Reporting Services report part library
  2. Improving report layout and visualization
  3. Developing sharable managed code expressions in SSRS
  4. Designing reports with custom MDX queries
  5. Building a scale-out Reporting Services farm
  6. Creating SSRS reports from SSAS
  7. Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data loads
  8. SSIS configurations management
  9. Exploring different types of enumerators in the SSIS Foreach Loop container
  10. Late-arriving dimensions in SSIS
  11. Why automate tasks with SSIS?
  12. Extending SSIS using the Script component
  13. ETL design checklist
  14. Autogenerating SSAS cubes
  15. Scripting SSAS databases – AMO and PowerShell, Better Together
  16. Managing context in MDX
  17. Using time intelligence functions in PowerPivot
  18. Easy BI with Silverlight PivotViewer
  19. Excel as a BI frontend tool
  20. Real-time BI with StreamInsight
  21. BI solution development design considerations by BY SIDDHARTH MEHTA

Book Details

  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1617290475
  • ISBN-13: 978-1617290473
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Spring Batch in Action

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Spring Batch in Action

Book Description

Spring Batch in Action is an in-depth guide to writing batch applications using Spring Batch. Written for developers who have basic knowledge of Java and the Spring lightweight container, the book provides both a best-practices approach to writing batch jobs and comprehensive coverage of the Spring Batch framework.

Spring Batch in Action is a thorough, in-depth guide to writing efficient batch applications. Starting with the basics, it discusses the best practices of batch jobs along with details of the Spring Batch framework. You’ll learn by working through dozens of practical, reusable examples in key areas like monitoring, tuning, enterprise integration, and automated testing.

No prior batch programming experience is required. Basic knowledge of Java and Spring is assumed.

What’s Inside

  • Batch programming from the ground up
  • Implementing data components
  • Handling errors during batch processing
  • Automating tedious tasks

Table of Contents
PART 1 BACKGROUND

  1. Introducing Spring Batch
  2. Spring Batch concepts

PART 2 CORE SPRING BATCH

  1. Batch configuration
  2. Running batch jobs
  3. Reading data
  4. Writing data
  5. Processing data
  6. Implementing bulletproof jobs
  7. Transaction management

PART 3 ADVANCED SPRING BATCH

  1. Controlling execution
  2. Enterprise integration
  3. Monitoring jobs
  4. Scaling and parallel processing

Book Details

  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182951
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182955
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Mahout in Action

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Mahout in Action

Book Description

Mahout in Action is a hands-on introduction to machine learning with Apache Mahout. Following real-world examples, the book presents practical use cases and then illustrates how Mahout can be applied to solve them. Includes a free audio- and video-enhanced ebook.

This book covers machine learning using Apache Mahout. Based on experience with real-world applications, it introduces practical use cases and illustrates how Mahout can be applied to solve them. It places particular focus on issues of scalability and how to apply these techniques against large data sets using the Apache Hadoop framework.

This book is written for developers familiar with Java?no prior experience with Mahout is assumed.

What’s Inside

  • Use group data to make individual recommendations
  • Find logical clusters within your data
  • Filter and refine with on-the-fly classification
  • Free audio and video extras

Table of Contents

  1. Meet Apache Mahout

PART 1 RECOMMENDATIONS

  1. Introducing recommenders
  2. Representing recommender data
  3. Making recommendations
  4. Taking recommenders to production
  5. Distributing recommendation computations

PART 2 CLUSTERING

  1. Introduction to clustering
  2. Representing data
  3. Clustering algorithms in Mahout
  4. Evaluating and improving clustering quality
  5. Taking clustering to production
  6. Real-world applications of clustering

PART 3 CLASSIFICATION

  1. Introduction to classification
  2. Training a classifier
  3. Evaluating and tuning a classifier
  4. Deploying a classifier

Book Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182684
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182689
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Dependency Injection in .NET

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Dependency Injection in .NET

Book Description

Dependency Injection in .NET presents core DI patterns in plain C# so you’ll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.

Dependency Injection in .NET introduces DI and provides a practical guide for applying it in .NET applications. The book presents the core patterns in plain C#, so you’ll fully understand how DI works. Then you’ll learn to integrate DI with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and to use DI frameworks like StructureMap, Castle Windsor, and Unity. By the end of the book, you’ll be comfortable applying this powerful technique in your everyday .NET development.

This book is written for C# developers. No previous experience with DI or DI frameworks is required.

What’s Inside

  • Many C#-based examples
  • A catalog of DI patterns and anti-patterns
  • Using both Microsoft and open source DI frameworks

Tabel of Contents

PART 1 PUTTING DEPENDENCY INJECTION ON THE MAP

  1. A Dependency Injection tasting menu
  2. A comprehensive example
  3. DI Containers

PART 2 DI CATALOG

  1. DI patterns
  2. DI anti-patterns
  3. DI refactorings

PART 3 DIY DI

  1. Object Composition
  2. Object Lifetime
  3. Interception

PART 4 DI CONTAINERS

  1. Castle Windsor
  2. StructureMap
  3. Spring.NET
  4. Autofac
  5. Unity

Book Details

  • Paperback: 584 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182501
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182504
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Android in Practice

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Android in Practice

Book Description

Android in Practice is a treasure trove of Android goodness, with over 90 tested, ready-to-use techniques including complete end-to-end example applications and practical tips for real world mobile application developers. Written by real world Android developers, this book addresses the trickiest questions raised in forums and mailing lists. Using an easy-to-follow problem/solution/discussion format, it dives into important topics not covered in other Android books, like advanced drawing and graphics, testing and instrumentation, building and deploying applications, using alternative languages, and native development.

It’s not hard to find the information you need to build your first Android app. Then what? If you want to build real apps, you will need some how-to advice, and that’s what this book is about.

Android in Practice is a rich source of Android tips, tricks, and best practices, covering over 90 clever and useful techniques that will make you a more effective Android developer. Techniques are presented in an easy-to-read problem/solution/discussion format. The book dives into important topics like multitasking and services, testing and instrumentation, building and deploying applications, and using alternative languages.

What’s Inside

  • 91 Techniques covering Android 1.x to 3.x
  • Android for tablets
  • Working with threads and concurrency
  • Testing and building
  • Using location awareness and GPS
  • Styles and themes
  • much more!

This book requires a working knowledge of Java, but no prior experience with Android is assumed.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 648 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182927
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182924
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