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Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Approach)

Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, Bernard Lopuz

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Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task–oriented: Look up the task to perform. See the solution. Read up on the details. Get the job done.

• Takes you directly from problem to solution
• Covers the “right” mix of Linux user and administration tasks for database administrators
• Respects your time by being succinct and to–the–point

What you’ll learn

• Execute Linux commands applicable to Oracle Database administration.
• Write shell scripts to automate critical DBA tasks.
• Monitor, tune, and optimize a Linux server to run Oracle Database.
• Perform Linux system administration tasks relevant to Oracle Database.
• Implement Oracle RAC on Linux.
• Implement Oracle ASM on Linux.
• Remotely (and securely!) manage Oracle on Linux.

Who is this book for?

Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is a book for Oracle database administrators who want to expertly operate Oracle databases on the Linux operating system. If you’re new to Linux, or are migrating from a Unix platform, or just want detailed solutions for tasks that Oracle DBAs perform on Linux servers, this book is for you.

Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting (Osborne Oracle Press)

Michael D. Lairson

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Your One-Stop Guide to Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting

Plan, build, and distribute data-rich business intelligence reports with ease. Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting details the entire report-building process and explains how to use the powerful features available in Answers On Demand to create and share comprehensive, integrated reports. The book includes proven strategies for report design and development, real-world examples, formatting tips, advanced reporting techniques, and sample formulas. Convert disparate corporate data into actionable business intelligence with help from this detailed guide.

• Maximize the features of Answers On Demand
• Strategically plan your reports
• Format, sort, filter, and modify report data
• Use column formulas with numeric, date and time, and text data
• Apply logic and transform data with column formulas
• Format report title and table views
• Add charts, graphs, pivot tables, filter prompts, and interactivity to reports
• Configure advanced views and create custom dashboards
• Manage reports and control access

Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

Lynn Langit

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Just as every business needs to effectively employ Business Intelligence (BI) to stay competitive, every IT professional needs to master BI to stay employed in this fastest-growing segment of Information Technology. Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence is the quickest path to understanding BI, and it is essential reading for all who work with SQL Server 2005. It is written from a practical perspective, perfect for anyone who uses the tools in SQL Server 2005s extraordinarily rich BI product suite.

This book explains how best to use Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SQL Server Data Mining. It also describes best practices for implementing end-to-end BI solutions in small, medium, and large business environments. And it provides important information about integrating BI with various client tools, including Excel, Business Scorecards, Proclarity, and SharePoint Portal Server. Developers, end users, and even managers will find this an enlightening guide to the power and promise of SQL Server 2005 BI. Highlights include the following:

• Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the SQL Server 2005 BI tool suite
• Concise, yet thorough, so you can use all BI tools effectively
• Special focus on features to useand avoidto cleanly scale BI solutions
• Full of sound, practical guidance on real-world best practices
• Essential reading for developers and users with any level of BI experience

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 (Essential Guide)

Charles E Brown

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Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web design and development platform. With nearly 98% of all web browsers, and a growing number of mobile devices, running Flash Player, a knowledge of Flex is indispensible for any serious web developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful Rich Internet Applications using Flex 3. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 3 software, you will explore in depth how the Flash scripting language, ActionScript 3.0, interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML.

You'll learn how to construct your applications using layout and navigation containers, and how to move between various states using transitions. There is coverage of how best to plan your applications and use the Model-View-Controller pattern to keep various aspects of development separated and ease creation of potentially complicated projects.

Rich Internet Applications rely on data, and this book shows how to bring data from various sources into your Flex application and check its integrity, and how best to display and interact with it.

Going farther, applications built for the Flash platform can now exist and function beyond the traditional confines of the web browser. Adobe AIR allows you to take your applications to the desktop, and this book shows how to reapply your Flex skills to take advantage of this new environment.

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 takes you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of stand-alone, practical exercises. The skills acquired throughout the book are then brought together in the form of a full-featured case study application showcasing essential techniques that can easily be applied to your own Flex applications.

In this book you'll

• Learn how to create powerful applications using Adobe Flex 3
• Use Flex Builder to design layouts using Flex MXML containers, and see how to combine MXML and ActionScript 3.0
• Work your way through a full-featured case study, building a complete Flex application
• Connect Flex to the ColdFusion application server, creating Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side code
• Take your web applications to the desktop using Adobe AIR

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1: Flex Basics
• Chapter 2: Flex and Flex Builder 3
• Chapter 3: ActionScript
• Chapter 4: Containers
• Chapter 5: Events and Components
• Chapter 6: Flex and XML
• Chapter 7: Formatting and Cascading Style Sheets
• Chapter 8: The Repeater Component
• Chapter 9: Drag and Drop
• Chapter 10: Case Study: Part 1
• Chapter 11: Case Study: Part 2
• Chapter 12: Flex and Data
• Chapter 13: Printing
• Chapter 14: Charting
• Chapter 15: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

Microsoft Office Access 2003: Complete Concepts and Techniques, CourseCard Edition (Shelly Cashman Series)

Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Philip J. Pratt, Mary Z. Last

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Microsoft Office Access 2003: Complete Concepts and Techniques, CourseCard Edition (Shelly Cashman Series) 2 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I thought it would go further into depth regarding the use of objects, such as tabs, for instance. I was expecting a larger, more expanded explanation of objects ane their use in a business environment. I probably would not purchase the book had I known this information ahead of time.

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For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series® has effectively introduced computers to millions of students, consistently providing the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our series of Microsoft Office 4.3, Microsoft Office 95, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Office XP textbooks have been the most widely used books in computer education. With each new edition of our Office books, we have made significant improvements based on software changes and comments made by both instructors and students. Our Microsoft Office 2003 books continue with the innovation, quality, and reliability that you have come to expect from the Shelly Cashman Series.

Microsoft Office Access 2007: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman)

Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Philip J. Pratt, Mary Z. Last

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Highly recommend this item. 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I highly recommend this book, Microsoft Office Access 2007 Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques. I do suggust that you take other computer classes related to this field. Other computer skills, such as Excel is very helpful, before using this book. I like the way it is set up.

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Microsoft Office Access 2007: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to successfully teach students Microsoft Access 2007 skills.

Crystal Reports 10: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series)

George K Peck

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Book Review 3 out of 5 stars.
34 of 45 people found this review helpful.

I have to say I'm disappointed in this book. Normally I don't buy McGraw-Hill "Complete Reference" books because generally I find them lacking sufficient detail and depth to do any real programming. I bought this book because there aren't an abundance of Crystal 10 books out yet and because Crystal Reports documentation is notoriously bad, but this book has lived up to my McGraw-Hill "Complete Reference" expectations. I find the book lacks sufficient detail and code samples to be of any real use for integrating Crystal Reports into an application. Specifically, I'm working with Part II, Crystal Reports 10 on the Web.

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Produce winning presentations and reports with expert advice from this definitive guide. Discover vital tips on how to best utilize Crystal Reports’ features to analyze data, and build professional, complex, and effective reports. Find the entire spectrum of user knowledge—from advice for new users on how to develop, design, and build a simple report, to in-depth information on complex features such as Crystal Server Pages and integrating Crystal Reports into Visual Basic.NET programs.

Fundamentals of Database Systems (5th Edition)

Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe

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I feel dumber now... 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book is required for my database class; I wish it weren't. The sentence structure is absolutely atrocious. Whatever happened to publishers checking for complete sentences??? Because of the poor sentences, I loose focus and do other things (like write this review).

Surprisingly, this is not the most frustrating part of the book. Why do I need flip hundreds of pages backward to learn a topic or do a problem? The authors rely on you spending more time flipping the pages of their book than actually reading it (this may be intentional since the writing itself is poor).

If you don't have to get this book I wouldn't. Otherwise I feel sorry for you and wish you keep your sanity...

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Fundamentals of Database Systems has become the world-wide leading textbook because it combines clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions and modern database technologies. This book has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in technological and application development. This fourth edition expands on many of the most popular database topics, including SQL, security, and data mining along with an introduction to UML modeling and an entirely new chapter on XML and Internet databases.

PeopleSoft Developer's Guide for PeopleTools And PeopleCode

Judi Hotsinpiller

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Design and Deliver PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions

Develop data-driven OracleAnd#39;s PeopleSoft applications and business intelligence reports with help from the expert advice in this Oracle Press guide. PeopleSoft DeveloperAnd#39;s Guide for PeopleTools Andamp; PeopleCode shows you how to build and enhance PeopleSoft modules that maximize return on investment. Set up PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture, create PeopleCode projects, integrate HTML and Web features, and create reports with Oracle XML Publisher. You will also learn how to use COBOL, SQR, PeopleSoft Application Engine, and Middleware integration.

• Install and configure PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture
• Work with PeopleCode components, objects, and classes
• Build pages and modules using the PeopleTools application designer
• Add HTML and Web elements in PeopleCode
• Implement code on the middle tier tools and work with process manager
• Execute powerful batch processes with application engine
• Generate detailed reports using Oracle XML Publisher and SQR
• Debug, secure, and optimize your PeopleSoft applications

Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server (Expert's Voice)

Vincent Rainardi

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Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server describes how to build a data warehouse completely from scratch and shows practical examples on how to do it. Author Vincent Rainardi also describes some practical issues he has experienced that developers are likely to encounter in their first data warehousing project, along with solutions and advice. The RDBMS used in the examples is SQL Server; the version will not be an issue as long as the user has SQL Server 2005 or later.

The book is organized as follows. In the beginning of this book (Chapters 1 through 6), you learn how to build a data warehouse, for example, defining the architecture, understanding the methodology, gathering the requirements, designing the data models, and creating the databases. Then in Chapters 7 through 10, you learn how to populate the data warehouse, for example, extracting from source systems, loading the data stores, maintaining data quality, and utilizing the metadata. After you populate the data warehouse, in Chapters 11 through 15, you explore how to present data to users using reports and multidimensional databases and how to use the data in the data warehouse for business intelligence, customer relationship management, and other purposes. Chapters 16 and 17 wrap up the book: After you have built your data warehouse, before it can be released to production, you need to test it thoroughly. After your application is in production, you need to understand how to administer data warehouse operation.

What you’ll learn

• A detailed understanding of what it takes to build a data warehouse
• The implementation code in SQL Server to build the data warehouse
• Dimensional modeling, data extraction methods, data warehouse loading, populating dimension and fact tables, data quality, data warehouse architecture, and database design
• Practical data warehousing applications such as business intelligence reports, analytics applications, and customer relationship management

Who is this book for?

There are three audiences for the book. The first are the people who implement the data warehouse. This could be considered a field guide for them. The second is database users/admins who want to get a good understanding of what it would take to build a data warehouse. Finally, the third audience is managers who must make decisions about aspects of the data warehousing task before them and use the book to learn about these issues.