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Excel 2007 Data Analysis For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Stephen L., CPA, MBA, MS Nelson

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Excel 2007 Data Analysis is Great 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I really like this book. It is written in very plain and easy to follow format. Anyone with any Excel knowledge at all will find it remedial at first however once you get to the part that interests you, it's great. It is easy to follow and informative. The author also uses humor to lighten it up, tech manuals can be very dry. This one is not.

I recomend the book for anyone just starting to do analysis with Excel. You will get your money's worth and will be able to finish the book without dying from bordom.

Editorial Review:

• Shows ordinary users how to tap the rich data analysis functionality of Excel, make sense of their organization's critical financial and statistical information, and put together compelling data presentations
• Now revised with over 30 percent new content to cover the enhancements in Excel 2007, including the completely redesigned user interface, augmented charting and PivotTable capabilities, improved security, and better data exchange through XML
• Provides thorough coverage of Excel features that are critical to data analysis-working with external databases, creating PivotTables and PivotCharts, using Excel statistical and financial functions, sharing data, harnessing the Solver, taking advantage of the Small Business Finance Manager, and more

Building Microsoft® Access Applications (Bpg Other)

John L. Viescas

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Get expert design guidance and fully functional sample databases from John L. Viescaspopular author, consultant, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Access. Designed for everyone from Access power users to application developers to beginners, this book focuses on four of the most common database types: Inventory Management, Membership Tracking, Customer Support, and Registration Management. For each, youll walk through usage scenarios, design considerations, typical problems, and multiple solutions, along with complete sample databases. Youll examine the logic behind the table design for the application type and see how to use it as a template for quickly creating your own Access solutions. You get everything you need to design with confidence, avoid common pitfalls, and hit the ground running! For each of four common database types, explore a range of solution options from the simple to the complex. Review query, form, report, and code examples specific to each application type. Use the table designs in the sample databases to model your own solutions. The book is geared for power users who work with everything from Access 2000 to Access 2003. The CD includes eBook and complete database solutions for Microsoft Office Access 2002 and Access 2003 The author has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Access every year since 1993.

Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition

Preston Gralla

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A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition covers the XP operating system from start to finish. Among the multitude of topics addressed, this must-have resource includes extensive coverage of hot-button issues such as:

• security
• web browsing
• controlling the control panel
• removing uninstallable XP components
• pop-up ads

You'll also find timesaving hacks for file distribution; digital media, such as iTunes; and high-visibility web software, services, and exploits that have emerged since the book's last edition. Each hack in the book can be read easily in just a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Now completely revised and updated to cover Service Pack 2 (SP2), the second edition of this bestseller carefully breaks down the new features that come with SP2, including IE pop-up blocker, Windows Firewall, and the new wireless client. Written by Preston Gralla, the compact and affordable Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition provides direct, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges facing XP beginners, as well as the more experienced power user. Each year, Windows XP is pre-installed on 90 million PCs worldwide, making it the world's most popular operating system.

SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

James Pyles, Piotr Prussak, Christopher Regan, Christopher Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash

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For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide provides a detailed discussion of all Sharepoint features, applications and extensions. You learn how to build Sharepoint sites and site collections, along with ways to administrate, secure, and extend Sharepoint. This book teaches you how to: Get up to speed on SharePoint, including ways to create lists, libraries, discussions and surveys Integrate email, use web parts, track changes with RSS, and use database reporting services Customize your personal site, create sites and areas, and organize site collections Integrate with Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, Picture Manager, and InfoPath Install, deploy, maintain and secure SharePoint Brand a portal, using your corporate style sheet, designing templates, and building site definitions Extend SitePoint, such as creating client side and server side web parts, using the SharePoint class library and SharePoint web services Each chapter starts with a "guide" that lets you know what it covers before you dive in. The book also features a detailed reference section that includes information on compatibility, command line utilities, services, and CSS styles. Why wait? Get a hold of SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide today!

Access Data Analysis Cookbook (Cookbooks)

Ken Bluttman, Wayne Freeze

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If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.

Whether you use Access 2007 or an earlier version, this book will teach you new methods to query data, different ways to move data in and out of Access, how to calculate answers to financial and investment issues, and more. Learn how to apply statistics to summarize business information, how to jump beyond SQL by manipulating data with VBA, how to process dates and times, and even how to reach into the Excel data analysis toolkit. Recipes demonstrate ways to:

• Develop basic and sophisticated queries
• Apply aggregate functions, custom functions, regular expressions, and crosstabs
• Apply queries to perform non-passive activities such as inserting, updating, and deleting data
• Create and manipulate tables and queries programmatically
• Manage text-based data, including methods to isolate parts of a string and ways to work with numbers that are stored as text
• Use arrays, read and write to the Windows registry, encrypt data, and use transaction processing
• Use the FileSystemObject, use XML with XSLT, communicate with SQL Server, and exchange data with other Office products
• Find answers from time-based data, such as how to add time, count elapsed time, work with leap years, and how to manage time zones in your calculations
• Deal with business and finance problems, including methods for calculating depreciation, loan paybacks, and Return on Investment (ROI)
• Explore statistical techniques, such as frequency, variance, kurtosis, linear regression, combinations and permutations

Access Data Analysis Cookbook is a one-stop-shop for extracting nuggets of valuable information from your database, and anyone with Access experience will benefit from these tips and techniques, including seasoned developers. If you want to use your data, and not just store it, you'll find this guide indispensable.

The Rational Guide To Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Rational Guides)

Adrian Downes, Nick Barclay

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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) is a complete performance management solution, allowing companies to monitor their progress toward goals, analyze information, plan, budget, and forecast using dynamic modeling tools. Using interactive dashboards, PPS enables the integration of refined data from one or more sources into a single point-of-contact for key performance indicators, which are directly aligned to corporate strategies and goals.

This book will bring you up to speed on the Planning features of PPS 2007. Topics include performance management theory, PPS Planning Tools, the Planning Administration Console, and Planning Business Modeler. The book takes an in-depth look at solution design and implementation, including designing dimensions and member sets, building and securing business models, integrating business data, and defining business rules.

This book is a companion volume to The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003 Resource Kit

Microsoft MVPs and Partners, The Microsoft Windows Server Team

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7 Individual Books ++ 5 out of 5 stars.
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This bundled set of books contains just about everything it is possible to know about Windows Server 2003. Well, maybe not everything, but everything you can include in four thousand six hundred and fifty pages, yes, 4650 pages.

In one slipcase, there are eight separate Microsoft manuals:

Windows Internals (4th Edition)
Windows Group Policy guide
Windows Security Resource Kit (2nd Edition)
Windows Server 2003 Performance Guide
Windows Server 2003 Troubleshooting Guide
Windows Registry Guide (2nd Edition)
Windows Administrator's Automation Toolkit
Windows Server 2003 Tools and Digital Resources (on CD)

The CD contains more material than the rest of the books put together including (guaranteed to be true as it contains all of the manuals just listed in eBook form),
More than 300 esential tools and utilities,
And collections of Technical References on:

Active Director
Core Operating System
Group Policy
High Availability and Scalability
Networking Collection
Storage Technologies
Windows Security

It would be pointless to talk about the contents of each book here as they are already described under their individual titles. What you get in the bundle is: lower price than when purchased individually, extra material on the CD, and a cardboard slipcase to keep them in.

Editorial Review:

Get the essential resource for managing and optimizing Windows Server 2003direct from Microsoft. The definitive resource for managing, automating, and optimizing Windows Server 2003with expert insights from Microsoft MVPs, consultants, and the Microsoft Windows Server team. Includes 200+ tools and scripts, plus eBooks on CD. This official Microsoft Resource Kit delivers what every Windows administrator needs to understand Windows architecture and internals, optimize performance, implement security services, manage users and computers with Group Policy, master the Registry, troubleshoot Windows servers, and automate administration.

Understanding DB2(R): Learning Visually with Examples (2nd Edition)

Raul F. Chong, Xiaomei Wang, Michael Dang, Dwaine R. Snow

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The Easy, Visual Way to Master IBM® DB2 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®—Fully Updated for Version 9.5

IBM DB2 9 and DB2 9.5 provide breakthrough capabilities for providing Information on Demand, implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture, and streamlining information management. Understanding DB2: Learning Visually with Examples, Second Edition, is the easiest way to master the latest versions of DB2 and apply their full power to your business challenges.

Written by four IBM DB2 experts, this book introduces key concepts with dozens of examples drawn from the authors' experience working with DB2 in enterprise environments. Thoroughly updated for DB2 9.5, it covers new innovations ranging from manageability to performance and XML support to API integration. Each concept is presented with easy-to-understand screenshots, diagrams, charts, and tables.

This book is for everyone who works with DB2: database administrators, system administrators, developers, and consultants. With hundreds of well-designed review questions and answers, it will also help professionals prepare for the IBM DB2 Certification Exams 730, 731, or 736.

Coverage includes

• Choosing the right version of DB2 for your needs

• Installing and configuring DB2

• Understanding the DB2 environment, instances, and databases

• Establishing client and server connectivity

• Working with database objects

• Utilizing breakthrough pureXML™ technology, which provides for nativeXML support

• Mastering administration, maintenance, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and recovery

• Understanding improvements in the DB2 process, memory, and storage models

• Implementing effective database security

• Leveraging the power of SQL and XQuery

Active Directory for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference (Pro-Technical References)

Stan Reimer, Mike Mulcare

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Good information, much of it available elsewhere 3 out of 5 stars.
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When Windows 2003 was first released, if you were shopping for an Active Directory title, it was to solidify your administrative abilities with the emerging technology prior to implementing what at the time was a new platform. Today, if you're looking for an AD book, you are probably looking more for a reference guide to facilitate either advanced configuration and troubleshooting, or to enhance your understanding of the more "behind the scenes" aspects of the AD.

In 2002 (when this book was published), I could have recommended this title. Without a doubt the book gives good historical information on where AD came from, and provides a solid foundation for the systems AD relies on (DNS), as well as planning your AD configuration, deployment in either a clean or migrated environment, security configuration, and AD object management. Much of the information presented in the domain design, deployment, and security sections however, are either direct reprints or consolidations of already posted (and free) Microsoft documentation, from such titles as Windows 2000 Server Domain Migration Cookbook, Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain Rename Tools, Step-by-Step Guide to Kerberos 5 (krb5 1.0) Interoperability, and several other cited Microsoft KB and "Step by Step" articles. These references are not hidden, but mentioned in side-bars throughout the text, and you are quite often encouraged to read those texts in addition to the information in this book.

The layout of this book lends itself well to those learning or solidifying the basic to intermediate points of the technology. Although the title would suggest that this is a good reference, references allow one to look at the index or table of contents for the information they need, and get the answers without having to cross-reference many other topics. Picking a topic, such as application partition creation and management, shows that the information on this is not in one location and in fact requires the reader to have read the preceding topics in order to get a clearer picture. This is not detractive to the value of the book, but a better classification for this would be textbook.

Today, the 2003 AD has been out for many years, more professionals have mastered the topic, and better books are available that provide a less Microsoft-centric take on the AD, as well as proven experience in management in more standard implementations. Instead of this title, look at ISBN 0321228480 "Inside Active Directory Second Edition".

Editorial Review:

This detailed technical reference is ideal for anyone who is implementing Active Directory in Microsoft Windows .NET Server. Written by two experts on Active Directory, this book's primary focus is using Active Directory to solve directory services issues for enterprise clients. It's brimming with concrete, real-world design and implementation information-including answers to all the typical questions a network architect, engineer, or administrator might have about Active Directory in Windows .NET Server.

Access 2000 for Windows for Dummies

John Kaufeld

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Being a normal human being, you probably have work to do. In fact, you may have lots of work piled precariously around your office or even stretching onto the Internet. Someone, possibly your boss, suggested that Access 2000 may help you get more done in less time, eliminate the piles, and generally make the safety inspector happy.

But if you’re confused instead of organized, befuddled instead of productive, or just completely lost on the whole database thing, Access 2000 For Windows For Dummies is the book for you.

You don't need to be a nerd to get the most out of Access 2000 For Windows For Dummies. If you know the basics of Windows 95, 98, or NT (whichever one you use) and have a desire to work with databases, you're ready to go. Everything you need to know is right here, just waiting for you to read it.

Each part of Access 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers a general topic of Access 2000. Right off the bat, this book answers the lyrical question “It’s a data-what?” By starting with an overview of both database concepts in general and Access 2000 in particular, this book provides the information you need to make sense of the whole database concept. You'll also gain insight into

• Solving problems with Access 2000
• Designing, building, using, changing, and generally coexisting in the same room with Access 2000 tables
• Using the Access 200 queries to unearth the answers you know are hiding somewhere in your data
• Committing your database to paper
• Doing stuff faster and seeking assistance from the wizards. You'll even venture into a bit of programming

Now nothing’s left to hold you back from the wonders of Access 2000. Cleave tightly to Access 2000 For Windows For Dummies, consign the Microsoft manuals to a suitable dark hole, and dive into Access 2000.

Bon Voyage!