Databases

You know the rudiments of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren't taking full advantage of SQL's expressive power. You'd like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to your applications. You'd like to take your SQL skills to the next ... More

The single most authoritative guide on the most difficult phase of building a data warehouse The extract, transform, and load (ETL) phase of the data warehouse development life cycle is far and away the most difficult, time-consuming, and labor-intensive phase of building a data warehouse. Done righ... More

Data Mining Techniques addresses all the major and latest techniques of data mining and data warehousing. It deals with the latest algorithms for discovering association rules, decision trees, clustering, neural networks and genetic algorithms. The book also discusses the mining of web data, spatial... More

The Ultimate Resource on Oracle Database 10g Get thorough coverage of Oracle Database 10g from the most comprehensive reference available, published by Oracle Press. With in-depth details on all the new features, this powerhouse resource provides an overview of database architecture and Oracle Grid ... More

Oracle 9i : The Complete Reference covers critical relational, object-relational, and Web database concepts, as well as SQL, SQL*PLUS, PL/SQL, Java, JDBC, SQLJ, and XML programming. You'll also get full details on database administration techniques-and much. This authoritative volume is a must-have ... More

This book focuses on the most important new DBA features of Oracle 10g as they relate to database administration and Oracle tuning. It provides honest feedback about those features that you should use, and those you should not use. The text takes an in-depth look at the features that are the most im... More

This small slim volume is a concise guide to using Oracle's SQL*Plus tool which acts as a front-end to the SQL querying language. Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference does not attempt to teach you how to use the language but provides a quick reference to the commands available and the ways in which they... More

This practical, hands-on book offers deep, thorough coverage of the internals of architecture and resource management in SQL Server 2005, focusing on the Storage Engine. The book features extensive code samples and table examples. Understanding the internals of storage in SQL Server helps database d... More