Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you’re building applications with it more complex questions emerge. Is it better to store data using this schema or that one? Should I break this into two documents or store it all as one? How can I make this faster? The advice in this book should help you answer these...
SQL Server 2008 is Microsoft’s latest data platform providing data management and analytical solutions for the enterprise. The platform is trusted, ensures business continuity, and is more predictable and more scalable than ever before. Although similar to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 offers a tremendous number of new features and...
Over the years, Exchange Server has become a complicated messaging solution that many
organizations rely on. Many companies have not upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 and
are still using Exchange Server 2003. With the release of Exchange Server 2010, they are
now contemplating upgrading to take advantage of this new version’s...
50 Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hypergrowth in Any Environment
Scalability Rules is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and...
Active Directory is a common repository for information about objects that reside on
the network, such as users, groups, computers, printers, applications, and files. The
default Active Directory schema supports numerous attributes for each object class that
can be used to store a variety of information. Access Control Lists (ACLs) are...
I never got a chance to meet the inventors of Notes®, but these guys were true visionaries. Their
concepts and ideas of 20 years ago still feed today’s buzz. They invented a robust “NO SQL” data
store, provided a social platform with collaboration features, and made the deployment and replication
of applications...
Every new version of SQL Server brings with it new tools and features for database administrators (DBAs), developers, and architects, for them to be able to provide an effective solution for the end users in a simpler and more efficient manner. The terms effective and efficiency can be measured in a technical perspective as High Availability...
Databases are the workhorses of the information age. Like Atlas, they go largely unnoticed
in supporting the digital world we’ve come to inhabit. It’s easy to forget that our
digital interactions, from commenting and tweeting to searching and sorting, are in
essence interactions with a database. Because of this fundamental...
Welcome to Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript! This book teaches you how to program using the UnrealScript language so you can create your own game projects using the UDK. Instead of using dry, hypothetical code you will use the topics learned in each chapter to build an actual working game. By the end of the book, you...
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant is designed to be a concise and compulsively usable resource for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 administrators. It covers everything you need to know to perform the core administrative tasks for SQL Server and is the readable resource guide that you’ll want on your desk at all times. Because the focus...
We wrote this book to serve the needs of not just the MySQL application developer but also the MySQL database administrator. We assume that you are already relatively experienced with MySQL. We also assume some experience with general system administration, networking, and Unix-like operating systems.
Once every decade or so, a technology comes along that is so revolutionary that it
fundamentally alters the way we approach everything we do. The world itself has
changed. As I think back to 1995 when I first started developing Internet applications,
our data needs were relatively simple. For the next 10 years,...
