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Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:58:26 +0000

Publisher: Wiley (January 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471919217
ISBN-13: 978-0471919216

Product Description
Up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the Oracle database and business intelligence tools
Written by a team of Oracle insiders, this authoritative book provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools. You'll learn how to leverage Oracle features and how those features can be used to provide solutions to a variety of needs and demands. Plus, you'll get valuable tips and insight based on the authors' real-world experiences and their own implementations. Avoid many common pitfalls while learning best practices for:

Leveraging Oracle technologies to design, build, and manage data warehouses
Integrating specific database and business intelligence solutions from other vendors
Using the new suite of Oracle business intelligence tools to analyze data for marketing, sales, and more
Handling typical data warehouse performance challenges
Uncovering initiatives by your business community, security business sponsorship, project staffing, and managing risk

From the Back Cover
Up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the Oracle database and business intelligence tools
Data warehouses are the core technology that businesses use to capture, store, and analyze vast amounts of business data, and Oracle has emerged as the leading database platform. Its business intelligence tools make it considerably easier to analyze data to support marketing, sales, and other initiatives. Written by a team of Oracle insiders, this authoritative book provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools.

You'll learn how to leverage Oracle features and how those features can be used to provide solutions to a variety of needs and demands. Plus, you'll get valuable tips and insight based on the authors' real-world experiences and their own implementations.

Serving as a single reference that aims to help you avoid many common pitfalls while gaining professional success, Oracle Data Warehousing shares best practices for:

Leveraging Oracle technologies to design, build, and manage data warehouses
Integrating specific database and business intelligence solutions from other vendors
Using the new suite of Oracle business intelligence tools to analyze data for marketing, sales, and more
Handling typical data warehouse performance challenges
Uncovering initiatives by your business community, security business sponsorship, project staffing, and managing risk
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Mastering Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 (Mastering)

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:02:06 +0000

Publisher: Sybex (June 23, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470249838
ISBN-13: 978-0470249833

Product Description
Find all the information you need to manage and maintain Active Directory in Mastering Active Directory for Windows Server® 2008, an in-depth guide updated with over 300 pages of new material. Revised to address the new components, enhancements, and capabilities brought by Windows Server 2008 to the directory services, this book covers domain name system design, Active Directory forest and domain design, maintaining organizational units, managing group policy, implementing best practices, and more. Expect high-level coverage of the new version of Microsoft's powerful user authentication and authorization tool, fully updated for Windows Server 2008.

From the Back Cover
Detailed Coverage of Active Directory for Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2003 R2, and 2000
If you are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Active Directory, you need this book. From Windows Server 2000 up through the new features available in Windows Server 2008, this comprehensive guide gives you the practical instruction, detailed explanations, and shortcuts you need to efficientlyadminister Active Directory, no matter which server platform you're on. Control all user accounts from one location, write batch files and scripts, and centrally manage all your resources with Active Directory and the invaluable information in this one-stop guide.

Coverage includes:

Optimizing name, forest, and domain designs for reliable infrastructures

Organizing objects using containers and organizational units

Setting up and administering user, group, and computer accounts

Mastering Active Directory service management, including Rights management, Certificate, and Federation Services

Maintaining the Active Directory database and database security

Troubleshooting Active Directory at the highest levels

Scripting practical solutions using PowerShell

Design, Manage, and Troubleshoot Active Directory for All Windows Server Platforms

Implement Best Practices and Manage Accounts, Access, and Group Policy

Protect and Secure Information, Inside and Outside the Environment

Master Scripting, Write Batch Files, and Automate Routine Tasks

Reinforce Your Skills With Real-World Examples

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Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003 PKI and Certificate Security (Pro - One-Offs)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:35:31 +0000

# Publisher: Microsoft Press (July 7, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0735620210
# ISBN-13: 978-0735620216

Product Description
No need to buy or outsource costly PKI services when you can use the robust PKI and certificate-based security services already built into Microsoft Windows Server 2003! This in-depth reference teaches you how to design and implement even the most demanding certificate-based security solutions for wireless networking, smart card authentication, VPNs, secure email, Web SSL, EFS, and code-signing applications using Windows Server PKI and certificate services. Microsoft's principal PKI consultant, along with members of the Microsoft PKI Team, shows you how to incorporate best practices, avoid common design and implementation mistakes, help minimize risk, and optimize security administration. CD-ROM features timesaving tools, scripts, and an eBook.

From the Publisher
This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT delivers seven comprehensive volumes, including:

Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit, Second Edition

Microsoft Windows Group Policy Guide

Microsoft Windows Registry Guide, Second Edition

Microsoft Windows Administrator’s Automation Toolkit

Microsoft Windows Internals, 4/e

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Performance Guide

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Troubleshooting Guide

The Resource Kit also includes:

1. Tools: 120+ ResKit Tools and Tools help files, plus 114 IIS ResKit tools

2. Scripting tool library: 120+ scripted tools with command-line interface

3. Group Policy utilities: group policy scripts, templates, and whitepapers

4. WS03 Technical Reference Collection: 5,400 pages created by the Windows UA team

5. Unique e-book library: e-book versions of the books in the RK, plus 4 other titles --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:32:58 +0000

# Publisher: Apress; 2nd edition (October 29, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590598997
# ISBN-13: 978-1590598993

Product Description

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built–in feature set for working with location–based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in todays mobile and highly connected world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address

    * The special nature of spatial data and its role in professional and consumer applications
    * Issues in spatial data management such as modeling, storing, accessing, and analyzing spatial data
    * The Oracle Spatial solution and the integration of spatial data into enterprise databases
    * How spatial information is used to understand business and support decisions, to manage customer relations, and to better serve private and corporate users

When you read Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, you’re learning from the very best. Ravi Kothuri is a key member of Oracle’s Spatial development team. Albert Godfrind consults widely with Oracle clients on the implementation of Oracle Spatial, develops training courses, and presents frequently at conferences. Together they have crafted a technically sound and authoritative fountain of information on working with spatial data in the Oracle database.
What you’ll learn

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g delivers in helping you fully understand Oracles spatial data feature set. In reading the book, you’ll learn

    * About new Oracle Spatial features in Oracle Database 11g, including support for the European Petroleum Standards Group (EPSG) data model, the ability to publish to Google Earth, integration with Google Maps, and much more
    * The use of Oracles built-in SDO_GEOMETRY data type for storing location–based data
    * How to geocode your data, beginning with postal addresses and ending with SDO_GEOMETRY objects that enable future analysis as well as forming the foundation of working with spatial data within Oracle
    * How to create and display maps to help you visualize and analyze your geocoded data
    * About network modeling, which is useful in computing routes, travel distances, and proximity based upon travel time
    * How to optimize analysis of your spatial data by creating spatial indexes and custom operators

Who is this book for?

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g is aimed at software developers who wish to develop applications using Oracles extensive and strong support for working with spatial, or geocoded, data.
About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
Related Titles from Apress

    * Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 91 and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions
    * Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus

About the Author
Ravi Kothuri holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been an active researcher and developer in the spatial and multimedia areas for the past 12 years. Currently, he serves as the project lead and software architect for various projects in Oracle Spatial. He has around 15 patents (some pending) on specific Oracle technology and has authored numerous articles for database conferences and journals. Other activities include teaching database courses for undergrads and reviewing of research articles for spatial and database conferences. Ravi enjoys music, movies, and playing with children.

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Professional Oracle Programming (Programmer to Programmer)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:30:36 +0000

# Publisher: Wrox (June 17, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0764574825
# ISBN-13: 978-0764574825

Review
“…a good book for an introduction to Oracle, but especially good if you are interested in the areas of Business Intelligence, HTML-DB, XML DB and Regular Expressions…” (OracleHome, 3 August 2005)

Product Description

    * One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administration
    * Oracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database market
    * Provides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10g-including new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clause-as well as versions 8, 8i, and 9i
    * The authors are well-known as Oracle gurus-Greenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 Essentials
    * Shows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL

Professional Oracle Programming is intended for application developers who use Oracle as their database. As such, this book does not devote much space to topics which are primarily of interest to database administrators, such as backup and recovery. Most importantly, this book is designed to help a programmer understand the database issues that can have a direct impact on the operation and performance of their applications.

This volume attempts to provide a foundation for these developers, as well as guidance and examples of some of the key areas of interest and necessity. These areas include accessing data using SQL, handling issues such as multi-user concurrency and data integrity and security, the basics of programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML, and data warehousing.

This book is intended for people whose primary job is to create application systems. They are developers, rather than database administrators. Following through on this profile, we believe that you, the professional developer, are well informed and skilled in the creation of these application systems. In our experience, even professional developers may think of the database they use as nothing more than a place to store data.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Oracle Architecture and Storage
Chapter 02 - Using SQL
Chapter 03 - Handling Multiple Users
Chapter 04 - Database Design Basics
Chapter 05 - Oracle Security
Chapter 06 - The Oracle Data Dictionary
Chapter 07 - Installing Oracle
Chapter 08 - Introduction to SQL
Chapter 09 - Extended SQL
Chapter 10 - Indexes
Chapter 11 - Constraints
Chapter 12 - Other Database Structures
Chapter 13 - Functions
Chapter 14 - Distributed Queries, Transactions, and Databases
Chapter 15 - PL/SQL Basics
Chapter 16 - PL/SQL and SQL
Chapter 17 - PL/SQL Packages
Chapter 18 - Introduction to Java Database Programming
Chapter 19 - Triggers
Chapter 20 - Regular Expressions and Expression Filter
Chapter 21 - Object Relational Interactions with Oracle
Chapter 22 - Oracle XML DB
Chapter 23 - HTML-DB
Chapter 24 - High-Speed Data Movement
Chapter 25 - Data Loading and Management
Chapter 26 - Business Intelligence Query
Chapter 27 - Business Intelligence Analysis
Chapter 28 - Optimization

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Programming .NET 3.5

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:28:21 +0000

# Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (August 5, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 059652756X
# ISBN-13: 978-0596527563

Product Description
.NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies. In Programming .NET 3.5, bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks. While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a "Grand Tour" of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications. Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this hands-on guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy. The concepts and technologies that this book covers include: XAML -- Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- a new presentation framework and graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp Ajax Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols Workflow Foundation (WF) -- framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows CardSpace -- framework for managing the identities of your users You'll learn how to useeach of the four frameworks alone and in concert to build a series of meaningful example applications. Examples are written in C#, and all of the source code will be available for download at both the O'Reilly and the authors' site, which offers access to a free support forum. Between them, authors Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz have nearly forty years of experience in delivering commercial applications for companies such as Citibank, Apple, AT&T, NeXt, PBS, Ziff Davis, and dozens of smaller organizations. Their combined experience is valuable for telling the story of .NET 3.5 and how it will shorten the development life cycle for applications developers, and enhance your productivity.

About the Author
Jesse Liberty is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Silverlight Development Division. His business card reads "Silverlight Geek," and he is responsible for fostering a Silverlight Developer community, primarily through Silverlight.net.

Jesse is the author of numerous books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming Silverlight 2 and the perennial best-seller Programming C# 3.0. Jesse has two decades experience as a developer, author and consultant and has been a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS/Learning Link; and Vice President at Citibank. He provides full support for his writing, and access to his blogs, at JesseLiberty.com

Alex Horovitz is Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture & Standards at K12, Inc. where he develops enterprise applications leveraging the Model-View-Controller design pattern and re-usable Frameworks. During the 1990s he worked at both NeXT Computer and later at Apple.

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Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:22:28 +0000

# Publisher: Apress (August 4, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590595246
# ISBN-13: 978-1590595244

Product Description

Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the Grid architecture are Oracle's strategy for scaling out enterprise systems to cope with bigger workloads and more users. Many books limit themselves by conceptualizing and theorizing about RAC technology, but this book is the first to portray implementing and administering an Oracle 10g RAC system in a Linux environment. This book features basic concepts underlying Linux and Oracle RAC, design strategies, hardware procurement and configuration, and many other topics.

The RAC-specific technologies described include configuration of the interconnect, OCFS, ASM, Cluster Ready Services, and Grid Control. The Oracle features RMAN and Data Guard are also discussed, along with available hardware options. The authors include practical examples and configuration information, so that upon reading this book, youll be armed with the information you need to build an Oracle RAC database on Linux, whether it is on a single laptop or a 64-node Itanium cluster.

About the Author
Julian Dyke is an independent consultant specializing in Oracle Database
technology. He has over 20 years of database experience, including
more than 15 years as an Oracle DBA, developer, and consultant. He is
chair of the UK Oracle User Group Real Application Clusters Special
Interest Group (UKOUG RAC SIG) and a member of the Oak Table
Network. He regularly presents at conferences, seminars, and usergroup
meetings in the UK, Europe, and the US. He also maintains
www.juliandyke.com, which specializes in Oracle diagnostics, optimization,
and internals. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and
holds a bachelor of science degree in computation from the University
of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

Steve Shaw is the lead Oracle technologist for Intel Corporation in
EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). Steve has over 12 years of
commercial IT experience with 8 years dedicated to working with the
Oracle Database, including a period of time with Oracle Corporation.
Steve is the author of Hammerora, the open source Oracle load-test
tool, and an expert on Oracle benchmarks and performance. Steve has
contributed articles to many Oracle publications and web sites and
presents regularly at Oracle seminars, conferences, and special-interest
group meetings. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds a master
of science degree in computing from the University of Bradford, UK.

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Windows: Scripting Secrets

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:19:28 +0000

# Paperback: 751 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (May 4, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0764546848
# ISBN-13: 978-0764546846

Product Description
The most comprehensive book on the market, Windows Scripting Secrets uncovers the never-before-documented features and hidden system functions that make the new Windows Scripting Host a more powerful tool. The book includes more than 200 ready-to-use scripts, and the CD-ROM contains ready-to-use libraries and examples from the book, as well as numerous scripting tools.

A few of the insights inside include

    * Kick-starting WSH and VBScripts
    * "Kidnapping" and creating COM objects
    * Tweaking your Registry, and monitoring system status
    * Powering up with Kodak Imaging
    * Running a Windows network with ADSI scripts

You can automate almost any system task or enhance your current functionality using the scripting solutions detailed here. From the CD-ROM, sample more than 450 scripts, or try looking for an answer in the fully searchable electronic version of the book.

Book Info
Over 700 pages on the secrets of effective Windows scripting. Learn how to enhance system functionality and automate almost any task, get scores of ready-made scripting solutions that can be implemented right away. Softcover. DLC: Microsoft Windows (Computer file).

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Winstructor - Exchange Server 2003 Training Videos

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:11:36 +0000

Pro .NET 2.0 Graphics Programming (Experts Voice in .Net)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:33:34 +0000

Publisher: Apress (October 7, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590594452
ISBN-13: 978-1590594452

Product Description
Whether you are using Windows Forms to build rich-client business applications, or the ASP.NET 2.0 framework to build powerful web applications or web services, the use of well-designed graphics will greatly enhance their usability, impact, and visual appeal. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the use of graphics in .NET applications and aims to provide you with all the information you need to build effective custom controls.

The opening section of the book investigates the .NET Framework classes that implement graphics. It covers all of the classes, methods, and techniques needed to create, manipulate, and display precise graphics in a form, a page being sent to a printer, or an