SQL SERVER 2012 REPRESENTS A SIZABLE jump forward in scalability, performance, and usability for the DBA, developer, and business intelligence (BI) developer. It is no longer unheard of to have 40-terabyte databases running on a SQL Server. SQL Server administration used to just be the job of a database administrator (DBA), but as SQL Server...
The Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS), held each February for seventeen
consecutive years, offers a full-day tutorial followed by two days of presentations
of papers. This book of Proceedings contains all the papers presented at SSS’09.
The first paper accompanies the tutorial, which addresses one of the...
Hands-on solutions for common SharePoint 2010 challenges
Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions. A team of authors encourages you to customize SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box...
A few months back, I wanted to create an online presence for my band, Daisy’s Gone.
In the past, I would have started from scratch. But I remembered all the domains I’ve
accumulated over the years that are now nothing more than parking pages at my registrar.
It’s generally not hard to throw...
The professionalization of web development has been a difficult journey because of our
disparate beginnings. Even those who end up at large companies such as Yahoo! inevitably
began on their own, hacking around. Perhaps you were even “the web guy” at
a small company and could do pretty much whatever you...
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database....
Systems engineering is a multidisciplinary approach for developing solutions to
complex problems. The increase in system complexity is demanding more rigorous
and formalized systems engineering practices. In response to this demand,
along with advancements in computer technology, the practice of systems engineering
is...
Fortran is one of the oldest high-level languages and remains the premier language for writing code for science and engineering applications. Modern Fortran: Style and Usage is a book for anyone who uses Fortran, from the novice learner to the advanced expert. It describes best practices for programmers, scientists, engineers, computer...
CompTIA® Security+ Exam Cram, Third Edition, is the perfect study guide to help you pass CompTIA’s newly updated version of the Security+ exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for...
Reporting Services is a report design and enterprise-class information delivery tool that has aged and matured for more than nine years now. And this book has grown along with the product. We fi rst started writing Professional Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services before the product was released, back in 2003. After four new versions of...
It's not an overstatement to say that handhelds have changed the world. What was, just 10
years ago, simply a phone is now the center of your online life and, for many users, their
primary Internet device. The power of the smart phone is shaking up the world from Main
Street and Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue and Downing...
When I first started working on Enterprise projects in early 2000, I was initially lost in
the jungles of Enterprise messaging. It was (and is still, to some extent) a formidable
challenge to start an Enterprise messaging project. There used to be a variety of...
