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21. |  SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning By: Kalen Delaney Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 11-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning
If you've designed your SQL code intelligently, and implemented a sensible indexing strategy, there's a good chance your queries will "fly", when tested in isolation. In the real world, however, where multiple processes can access the same data at the same time, SQL Server often has to make one process wait, sacrificing concurrency and performance, in order that in order that all can succeed, without destroying data integrity. Your application can have world-class indexes and queries, but they won't help you if you can't get your data, because another application has it locked. That's why...
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22. |  The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM By: Jacob Sebastian; Sven Aelterman Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 31-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM
Storing large object data in the database offers a number of benefits, but introduces performance challenges. Conversely, storing large object data in the file system has overriding performance advantages, but fails to offer some of the basic data integrity, security and manageability features that are required for business data, and which SQL Server provides. Up to now, most people have adopted file system storage by necessity, and often struggled to overcome the associated shortcomings. This is exactly where SQL Server's new FILESTREAM feature fits in. We hope this book will get you...
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23. |  The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems By: Ben W. Ebenhack; Daniel M. Martínez Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems What do we want from sustainable energy? What is possible to achieve and when? Energy professionals and political leaders need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy—the limits of that energy—and what must change in the future if we are to have a more environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technologically-based civilization. This book sheds some much needed light on that conundrum. It • provides a broad overview of our current energy resources and their limitations; • includes considerations of political and economic constraints,...
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24. |  Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 By: Cheng-Few Lee Publisher: JAI Press Publication Date: 12-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 Twelve papers focus on investment analysis, portfolio theory, and their implementation in portfolio management...
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25. |  By: E. R. Yescombe Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Public-Private Partnerships
Over the last decade or so, private-sector financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has become increasingly popular around the world as a way of procuring and maintaining public-sector infrastructure, in sectors such as transportation (roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, airports), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools, prisons, social housing) public utilities (water supply, waste water treatment, waste disposal), government offices and other accommodation, and other specialised services (communications networks or defence equipment). This book, based on the...
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26. |  By: Patrick M Georges; Josephine Hus Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Six Figure Management Method Measuring and improving performance is critical for managers who want to achieve successful business growth. However, standard key performance indicators can be overly complex and therefore ineffective in managing productivity: Six Figure Management Method shows that if you measure and improve just six well-selected figures, each of them simple to understand and easy to calculate, the profitability of your unit or business will soar. Based around these six measures, it presents a streamlined, straightforward framework for managing your activities effectively on a day-to-day basis, while...
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27. |  By: Simon Pont Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital State What is the Digital State? What is our Digital State of Mind?
What does this Digital State mean for brands and for businesses?
Big data, new distribution platforms, content collaboration, geo-targeting, crowdsourcing, viral marketing, mobile apps - the technological revolution has transformed the way society communicates and understands itself, and unleashed a whirlwind of new possibilities for marketers, as well as new risks.
Mirroring the 'collaborative play space' Tim Berners-Lee first envisaged for the internet, Digital State brings together Simon Pont and 13 thought-leaders drawn from...
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28. |  Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition By: Ian Brace Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition Questionnaires are vital for the market researcher: they draw accurate information from respondents, give structure to interviews, provide a standard form on which facts, comments and attitudes can be recorded, and facilitate data processing. Questionnaire Design explains the role of questionnaires in market research and looks at different types of questionnaire, examining when and how they should be deployed. The book explains how to plan, structure and compose the right questionnaire for the research you are undertaking. Fully updated with new content on encouraging respondent involvement,...
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29. |  Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple By: Ben Howard Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 30-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects....
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30. |  HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A By: Orley Ashenfelter; David Card Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 28-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics? "Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. ...
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31. |  By: Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc. Publisher: Que Publication Date: 09-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Access® 2013 on Demand Need answers quickly? Access 2013 on
Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format.
We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color
illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
Inside the Book
• Create desktop databases or web apps
for traditional and online users to gather, organize, and share
data
• Use professional templates to help
you create desktop databases or web apps
• Create web apps on SharePoint Team
Services to collaborate and share information
• Use tools for building a database or
web app that makes information easier to find and...
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32. |  By: Patrice-Anne Rutledge Publisher: Que Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: WordPress® on Demand WordPress on Demand will cover both
WordPress.com and WordPress.org in a visual, step-by-step format.
In addition to offering detailed guidance on how to complete dozens
of common WordPress tasks, this book will provide real-world advice
and suggestions on how to save time, avoid frustration, and create
a high-quality, well-designed site that attracts an audience and
achieves results. WordPress on Demand will be based on WordPress
version 3.5.1.
In this book, readers will learn how
to:
• Decide between hosted
WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org)
• Choose the right...
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33. |  Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers By: B. Espen Eckbo Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 12-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control", focus on a range of special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition, winner’s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues arising when bidding for...
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34. |  How to Influence and Persuade 2nd edn, 2nd Edition By: Jo Owen Publisher: Pearson International Publication Date: 21-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Influence and Persuade 2nd edn, 2nd Edition
Everyone operating in business needs to understand how they should be using both influence and persuasion to make an impact, deliver outstanding results and really get ahead. This brand new edition of How to Influence , is structured into three easy-to-access sections that will show you how to create willing allies across your organisation, turn potential crises into career defining opportunities, turn disagreement into consent, win key battles without fighting, push your agenda forward with authority, achieve more and stay in control. Author Jo Owen is highly regarded as a...
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35. |  FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team By: Graham Yemm Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team
The tools and ideas to help you lead with confidence and achieve better results through your team. This book provides all the tools and skills to help you be more effective in leading your team and achieving higher levels of performance. It focuses on three key elements: you as the leader, the principles of team working and team building, and getting individuals to contribute and perform. As well as identifying obstacles and pitfalls, it assists you in improving your skills and coaches you to work out what you could be doing better.
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36. |  FT Essential Guide to Negotiations By: Geof Cox Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Negotiations
A practical and clear guide showing you how to lead and secure a win: win outcome in all your business deals. This book will take you through the steps, actions and communications skills necessary to ensure successful business negotiations. Introducing a four-phase process that underpins successful negotiations and sharing the practices and actions of highly effective negotiators in a straightforward and practical manner, this detailed, step by step guide will help you go into negotiations fully equipped with the key tools that you need to secure a win: win outcome.
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37. |  Living Leadership, 3rd Edition By: George Binney; Colin Williams; Gerhard Wilke Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Living Leadership, 3rd Edition
Reassess your leadership style, discover how to connect with people, and become a leader who can make things happen in the real world. Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary aspects of leadership. From building relationships, to working with the grain of the organisation rather than against it, and to knowing our limitations as much as pushing every boundary, the new edition of this...
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38. |  FT Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement, 2nd Edition By: Mr John Greenwood Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement, 2nd Edition
This book will help you navigate your way through the complex maze of state, private, workplace and individual pensions, offering you a range of achievable solutions you can carry out yourself to make a significant difference to your retirement income. It explains the different types of pension that exist and offers expert advice on efficient ways to build a secure retirement and how to manage that security once you have retired.
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39. |  How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition By: Michael Heppell Publisher: Pearson Life Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition
Do you want to live life to the full? To know in years to come that you really gave it your all – and got the most out of it? The simplest way to a brilliant life is by making sure you’re paying attention to the stuff that matters, in every area of your life, and by making positive and lasting change where it’s needed, when it’s needed. Although that’s not rocket science, it’s so very easy to just get swept along by the flow and then wonder what happened. We all need a bit of help to make sure we’re living our best possible life. And that’s where this book comes in. Taking each...
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40. |  By: Jo Owen Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Manage, 3rd Edition
The ultimate how-to of management. Based on years of management practice and actually watching what good managers do, it cuts through the noise of management theory, to show you how to develop the skills, behaviour and emotions to thrive as a manager. In How to Manage youll learn how to: Evaluate your own management potential Assess team members and help them discover how they can improve Identify and build the core skills you need to succeed Recognise the rules of survival and success in your organisation
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