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 Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer
The SQL Server Query Optimizer is perceived by many to be a magic black box, transforming SQL queries into high performance execution plans in the blink of an eye through some unknowable process. The truth is that, while the Query Optimizer is indeed the highly-complex result of decades of research, learning how it works its magic is not only... | | ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination
Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this... | | The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (Routledge Philosophy Companions)
The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.
This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin,... |
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Gradle in Action
Summary
Gradle in Action is a comprehensive guide to end-to-end project automation with Gradle. Starting with the basics, this practical, easy-to-read book discusses how to build a full-fledged, real-world project. Along the way, it touches on advanced topics like testing, continuous integration, and... | | Success Secrets: Real-Life Stories to Inspire and Motivate
This unique book fills a vital gap present in most study and examination guides - it offers inspiration and motivation to make the student want to excel. As such, it is a valuable complement to the author's other book, "Scholars' Secrets". The author shares his personal story about how he overcame poverty and parental abuse,... | | Instant Marketing for Almost Free: Effective, Low-Cost Results in Weeks, Days, or Hours (Quick Start Your Business)
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician, once told parents,“You know
more than you think you do.”Well, the same holds true for marketing;
actually, it probably holds truer, as you know if you’ve ever had kids.And
if you’ve had the courage, ingenuity, and creativity to start a small business,
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Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects
The Foundry’s Nuke is fast becoming the industry leader in compositing software for
film and TV. Virtually all the leading visual effects studios—ILM, Digital Domain, Weta
Digital, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—now use Nuke
as their main compositing tool. This is not surprising, as Nuke offers... | | Foundations of XML Processing: The Tree-Automata Approach
Computer science, like other mathematical fields, cannot live without a tight relationship
with reality. However, such a relationship is, frankly, not very common.
This is probably why people so enthusiastically welcome a true meeting of theory
and practice. In that sense, the coming together of XML and tree automata theory
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