Author(s) : Rod Stephens Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Date       : 2008 Pages     : 1248 Format    : PDF ISBN-10  : 0470182628 ISBN-13  : 978-0470182628

Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the upcoming Orcas release of Visual Basic. The tutorial provides basic material suitable for beginners but also includes in–depth content for more advanced developers.

The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features. The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events.

Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference will be fully revised (30%) to cover the latest features of the Orcas release, including:
    * Changes to variable declaration and initialization
    * XLinq support for XML data types; query comprehensions for using SQL–like syntax to extract data from arrays and other data structures
    * Extension methods for adding new features to existing classes
    * Nested subroutines and functions
    * Anonymous subroutines and functions ("lambda expressions")
    * Nullable types
    * Relaxed delegates
    * Dynamic interfaces
    * Dynamic identifiers

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Author(s) : Joe Celko Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition Date       : 2006 Pages     : 208 Format    : PDF ISBN       : 0123695120

The First book that teaches what SQL programmers need in order to successfully make the transition from transactional systems (OLTP) into the world of OLAP.

Before SQL programmers could begin working with OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) systems, they had to unlearn procedural, record-oriented programming before moving on to SQLs declarative, set-oriented programming. This book covers the next step in your growth. OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing), Data Warehousing and Analytics involve seeing data in the aggregate and over time, not as single transactions. Once more it is time to unlearn what you were previously taught.

This book is not an in-depth look at particular subjects, but an overview of many subjects that will give the working RDBMS programmers a map of the terra incognita they will faceif they want to grow.
* Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist, who has given ten years of service to the ANSI SQL standards committee and many more years of dependable help to readers of online forums.
* First book that teaches what SQL programmers need in order to successfully make the transition from transactional systems (OLTP) into the world of data warehouse data and OLAP.
* Offers real-world insights and lots of practical examples.
* Covers the OLAP extensions in SQL-99; ETL tools, OLAP features supported in DBMSs, other query tools, simple reports, and statistical software.

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