Understanding MySQL Internals

June 3, 2009 – 2:38 am

Understanding MySQL Internals Book CoverBook’s Description:

Understanding MySQL Internals provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner workings of this powerful database. You’ll go right to heart of the database to learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration options, and much more.

The core of Understanding MySQL Internals begins with an Architecture Overview that provides a brief introduction of how the different components of MySQL work together. You then learn the steps for setting up a working compilable copy of the code that you can change and test at your pleasure.

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Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

June 1, 2009 – 1:25 am

Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook Book CoverBook’s Description:

By read Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook, you will learn how to maximize the capabilities of Oracle Application Server Portal, customize your portals, integrate Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, and add Java functionality. Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook covers all of the design, management, and security features available in Oracle Application Server Portal 10.1.4 alongside real-world solutions.

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The Handbook of Database Security: Applications & Trends

May 28, 2009 – 2:15 am

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends Book CoverBook’s Description:

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications & Trends is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry and academia as a reference book. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science interested in the state-of-the-art in data security.

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Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security

May 26, 2009 – 2:47 am

Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security Book CoverBook’s Description:

This is the only practical, hands-on guide available to database administrators to secure their Oracle databases. Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security will help the DBA to assess their current level of risk as well as their existing security posture. It will then provide practical, applicable knowledge to appropriately secure the Oracle database. The book’s companion Web site contains dozens of working scripts that DBA’s can use to secure and automate their Oracle databases.

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Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

May 24, 2009 – 1:38 am

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel Book CoverBook’s Description:

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more. Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and perform the analysis using SQL and Excel, and what the results should look like.

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Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication

May 22, 2009 – 2:20 am

Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication Book CoverBook’s Description:

Learn about Ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission - the most talked about application in wireless communications.

UWB wireless communication is a revolutionary technology for transmitting large amounts of digital data over a wide spectrum of frequency bands with very low power for a short distance. This exciting new text covers the fundamental aspects of UWB wireless communications systems for short-range communications. It also focuses on more advanced information about networks and applications. Chapters include: Radio Propagation and Large Scale Variations, Pulse Propagation and Channel Modelling, MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) RF Subsystems and Ad Hoc Networks.

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Cisco: A Beginner’s Guide, Fourth Edition

May 20, 2009 – 11:19 am

Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition Book CoverBook’s Description:

Cisco: A Beginner’s Guide, Fourth Edition provides you with a practical hands-on resource for successfully designing and managing a Cisco network. Learn to work with Cisco routers and switches, wireless technologies, and storage tools. You’ll also get full details on network security, including firewalls, as well as communications solutions such as VoIP. This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in internetworking and Cisco technologies.

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Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista

May 19, 2009 – 9:18 pm

Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista Book CoverBook’s Description:

If you’re the type of computer user that can’t make heads or tails from the normal computer manual then Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista by John Rizzo is for you. Full of handy information with great color illustrations, Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista will be a book that you actually use.

Chapters include Chapter 1, Prepare to Upgrade; Chapter 2, Install Windows Vista; Chapter 3, Move Files & Settings from Another PC, Chapter 4, Explore Windows Vista; Chapter 5, Personalize the Desktop; Chapter 6, Take Charge of the Start Menu; Chapter 7, Take Charge of the Taskbar; Chapter 8, Navigate Folder Windows; Chapter 9, Sort, Group, & Filter Files; Chapter 10, Secure Your Computer. Read the rest of this entry »

How Microsoft Windows Vista Works

May 18, 2009 – 4:16 am

How Microsoft Windows Vista Works Book CoverBook’s Description:

How Microsoft Windows Vista Works is the first book to take you inside the new Windows Vista operating system and show you how all the pieces and parts work. With clear and simple explanations and illustrations that say, “You, too, can understand this,” How Microsoft Windows Vista Works gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of Windows Vista from the new Aero interface inside to the Windows kernel.

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