For the day-to-day DBA, there are dangers around every corner; monsters waiting to strike down the unsuspecting database with a resource-hungry query, an inefficient data load, or even outright data corruption. When the worst happens, and SQL Server is down, or performance is suffering, customers are quick to complain.. During such difficult...
When enterprise architects try to explain to people who are not enterprise architects what it is they do for a living, they almost invariably resort to using an analogy with the architecture of buildings, and describe enterprise architecture as a ‘kind of blueprint’. While this analogy may be helpful in conveying a general sense...
In the five months that I have been researching and writing Cloud Computing Bible, it has become clear to me that most people recognize that cloud computing is a big deal, even if they are not really clear why that is so. Every day newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV stories report on cloud computing. The phrase “in the...
When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often
said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference
around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is
it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...
You put hours and hours of hard work into your job search and the companies you've contacted never call. It's a story all too common in the fast-paced, highly competitive world of job hunting. Nothing is more discouraging than sending one resumé after another...
Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills. JavaScript is in the top ten most-used programming languages world wide, and is the basis for applications that can run in any modern browser, on any device from smart phone to...
The FreeBSD Handbook comes with the full FreeBSD Operating System on 1 CDROM. FreeBSD is a powerful, professional quality UNIX-compatible operating system.
The FreeBSD Handbook is a comprehensive FreeBSD tutorial and reference. It covers installation, day-to-day use of FreeBSD, and much more, such as the Ports collection, creating...
This book presents the latest innovative research findings, methods, and development techniques related to intelligent social networks and collaborative systems, intelligent networking systems, mobile collaborative systems, and secure intelligent cloud systems. Offering both theoretical and practical perspectives, it also reveals...
This edited volume deals with the attempts made by the scientists and practitioners to address contemporary issues in geoenvironmental engineering such as characterization of dredged sediments, geomaterials and waste, valorization of waste, sustainability in waste management and some other geoenvironmental issues that are becoming quite relevant...
The Python Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for Python programmers, written by Python programmers. It contains over two hundred recipes for text manipulation, object oriented programming, XML processing, system administration, and much more. This book is a treasure trove of...
Set Effective Performance Goals for Your People--Just Look Up the Right Phrase!
In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Maxdescribed past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals,...
Discover the fastest way to migrate to Windows Server 2003 and begin to profit from its enterprise-ready features. Learn how to use the parallel network for migration. Design an Enterprise Network Architecture and follow feature-by-feature implementations. Make the most of Active Directory as an...
