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• Explore the best practices to develop applications of a superior quality with Django framework
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Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as...

• Discover how Hive can coexist and work with other tools in the Hadoop ecosystem to create big data solutions
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The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Second Edition, is updated for the latest version and includes all of the latest MongoDB features, including the aggregation framework introduced in version 2.2 and hashed indexes in version 2.4. MongoDB is the most popular of the "Big Data" NoSQL database technologies, and it's still growing....

Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization...

SQL is a standard language for getting to and controlling databases. What is SQL? SQL remains for Structured Query Language SQL gives you a chance to get to and control databases SQL is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard What Can SQL do? SQL can execute queries against a database SQL can get data from a database SQL can...

Pro T–SQL Programmer’s Guide is your guide to making the best use of the powerful, Transact-SQL programming language that is built into Microsoft SQL Server's database engine. This edition is updated to cover the new, in-memory features that are part of SQL Server 2014. Discussing new and existing features, the book...

Large-scale data analysis is now vitally important to virtually every business. Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets;...