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Anyone have any recommendations on a good book to improve my T-SQL kung fu? I have been looking Joe at some of Joe Celko's books, but are there better ones out there? I need to develop a better understanding of JOINS and some of the other more advanced topics. I appreciate any recommendations.
I recommend SQL Server 2008 for Developers. Great book you can a lot of advanced topics from. A must read for db developers.
You can find the book here. The authors are Joel Murach and Bryan Syverson.
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Is there any easy resource available online or a book which would allow a complete newbie how the database normalization process works and what one should do to perform the transformations on a given database leading it from 1NF to 5NF through all the in-between?
From my research, it seems that the Wikipedia article seems to be the closest to what I'm looking for but is there anything even easier?
This highly depends upon your taste. But I have found that the course in class2go offered by Stanford is quite good. It has a fairly good explanation of normalization up until NF4. For a complete newbie I think this would be quite useful.
You have to sign up but the material is supposed to be there:
http://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013
Also have you seen this?
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm
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Closed 10 years ago.
This can be community wiki.
I'm looking for a simple, multi-platform, free database browser (ODBC,etc). This is for those times when I want to interface with a database, and just need a simple way to quickly see what the heck is in it. Doesn't need to support any vendor-specific features.
Too much junk out there and I don't want to play with these things all day. What do you use?
I like SqlDbx - the personal edition is free. It supports most of the major databases, and the built in intellisense is useful for queries.
Dbvisualizer has a free version http://www.dbvis.com/products/dbvis/download/
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I found a lot. But which one is the best? And why? I didn't find yet anything really complete and centralized in one good article or documentation. At least a good book? Thanks.
Our (Riptano's) Cassandra documentation is probably the best one-stop resource: http://www.riptano.com/docs
A good complement from the ASF wiki is http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations.
The Cassandra High Performance Cookbook is the most recent book. It has a how-to format but along the way documents many of the features.
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my company wants to sponsor me for some online sql server DBA classes. can someone please recommend a beginner's class to me?
AppDev's online courses are pretty good.
For around 1000 USD, you can have a lots of excellent courses on different subjects: http://www.appdev.com/
PS: I don't work for them, but I'm an happy customer.
Start at the SQL Server 2008 training portal, here.
You can check the next links:
sqldbatraining
cbtplanet
sqlservermasters
And this is a good basic tutorial for SQL instructions.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I need to introduce basic design principles in my team. I am looking for books which are not restricted to only object oriented design principles. And which can cover concepts such as Modularity, Information hiding etc.
Just for information - The implementation language for all the project in our team is C.
These books seem to be in the vicinity of what you are asking about:
Code Complete
The Practice of Programming
The Pragmatic Programmer
If you're building on a Unix environment, I'd really recommend The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S Raymond.
The book
Object Thinking by David West is pretty good.