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1. | Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition By: Jon Loeliger; Matthew McCullough Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 20-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 15-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition
Get up to speed on Git for tracking, branching, merging, and managing code revisions. Through a series of step-by-step tutorials, this practical guide takes you quickly from Git fundamentals to advanced techniques, and provides friendly yet rigorous advice for navigating the many functions of this open source version control system....
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2. | By: Kristina Chodorow; Michael Dirolf Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 08-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MongoDB: The Definitive Guide Discover how MongoDB can help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application. This book covers the basic principles and advanced uses of this document-oriented database, and demonstrates why why MongoDB is scalable, high-performance, and reliable. This authoritative introduction, written by two software engineers from the company that develops this open-source database, offers guidance for programmers and advanced configuration for system administrators....
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3. | By: Lynn Beighley Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 28-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Head First SQL Is your data dragging you down? Are your tables all tangled up?
Well we've got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases
into submission. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive
science, and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory SQL learning
experience, Head First SQL has a visually rich format
designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts
you to sleep. Maybe you've written some simple SQL queries to interact
with databases. But now you want more, you want to really dig into those
databases and work...
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4. | Oracle® SQL by Example, Fourth Edition By: Alice Rischert Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 12-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Oracle® SQL by Example, Fourth Edition
“The
book...has enough depth for even a seasoned professional to pick up
enough tips to pay back the price of the book
many times
over.”
–Dr.
Paul Dorsey, President, Dulcian, Inc., Oracle Magazine
PL/SQL Developer of the Year 2007, and President
Emeritus, New York Oracle Users
Group
“This
is a fascinating guide into the world of Oracle SQL with an
abundance of well-collected examples. Without a doubt, this
book is helpful to beginners and experts
alike who seek alternative ways to resolve advanced
scenarios.”–Oleg Voskoboynikov, Ph.D., Database
Architect
The
World’s #1...
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5. | By: Peter Harrington Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-APR-2012 Insert Date: 06-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Machine Learning in Action Summary
Machine Learning in Action is a unique book that blends
the foundational theories of machine learning with the practical
realities of building tools for everyday data analysis. You'll use
the flexible Python programming language to build programs that
implement algorithms for data classification, forecasting,
recommendations, and higher-level features like summarization and
simplification.
About this Book
A machine is said to learn when its performance improves with
experience. Learning requires algorithms and programs that capture
data and ferret out the interesting or useful...
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6. | Tera-Tom's 1000 page e-Book on Teradata By: Tera-Tom Coffing Publisher: Coffing Publishing Publication Date: 13-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tera-Tom's 1000 page e-Book on Teradata
This book covers the Teradata Architecture with brilliant simplicity and every SQL command in detail!
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7. | Tera-Tom on Teradata Basics V12 By: Tera-Tom Coffing Publisher: Coffing Publishing Publication Date: 01-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tera-Tom on Teradata Basics V12
For everyone involved in a Teradata Data Warehouse this brilliant book will lay the fundamental out and become the building blocks of your warehouse expertise.
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8. | Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition By: Ben Forta Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 25-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes,
Fourth Edition
New full-color code examples help you
see how SQL statements are structured
Whether you're an application developer,
database administrator, web application designer, mobile app
developer, or Microsoft Office users, a good working knowledge of
SQL is an important part of interacting with databases. And Sams
Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers the straightforward,
practical answers you need to help you do your job.
Expert trainer and popular author Ben Forta
teaches you just the parts of SQL you need to know–starting
with simple...
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9. | Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide Second Edition By: Paul Allison Publisher: SAS Institute Publication Date: 01-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide Second Edition
Biomedical and social science researchers who want to analyze survival data with SAS will find just what they need with this easy-to-read and comprehensive guide. Teaches many aspects of data input and manipulation. Numerous examples of SAS code and output make this an eminently practical book, completely updated for SAS®9.
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10. | Star Schema: The Complete Reference™ By: Christopher Adamson Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 30-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 14-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Star Schema: The Complete Reference™ The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouse
Learn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts.
This all-inclusive volume begins with dimensional design fundamentals and shows how dimensional design fits into diverse data warehouse architectures, including those of W.H. Inmon and Ralph Kimball. The...
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11. | Tera-Tom on Teradata SQL V12-V13 By: Tera-Tom Coffing Publisher: Coffing Publishing Publication Date: 16-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tera-Tom on Teradata SQL V12-V13
Want to know everything about Teradata SQL? This is the number one selling book on Teradata of all time. The clear and simple explanations covering all topics will vault you to an expert level in no time.
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12. | By: Galit Shmueli; Nitin R. Patel; Peter C. Bruce Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 26-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Data Mining for Business Intelligence, Second Edition uses real data and actual cases to illustrate the applicability of data mining (DM) intelligence in the development of successful business models. Featuring complimentary access to XLMiner®, the Microsoft Office Excel® add-in, this book allows readers to follow along and implement algorithms at their own speed, with a minimal learning curve. In addition, students and practitioners of DM techniques are presented with hands-on, business-oriented applications. An abundant amount of exercises and examples, now doubled in number in the second...
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13. | Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management, Third Edition By: Gordon S. Linoff; Michael J. A. Berry Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 12-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management, Third Edition
The leading introductory book on data mining, fully updated and revised!
When Berry and Linoff wrote the first edition of Data Mining Techniques in the late 1990s, data mining was just starting to move out of the lab and into the office and has since grown to become an indispensable tool of modern business. This new edition—more than 50% new and revised—is a significant update from the previous one, and shows you how to harness the newest data mining methods and techniques to solve common business problems. The duo of unparalleled authors share invaluable advice for improving response...
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14. | MongoDB Applied Design Patterns By: Rick Copeland Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 18-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MongoDB Applied Design Patterns Whether you’re building a social media site or an internal-use enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection between MongoDB and the business problems it’s designed to solve. You’ll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming....
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15. | Learning SAS® by Example: A Programmer’s Guide By: Ron Cody Publisher: SAS Institute Publication Date: 29-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 14-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning SAS® by Example: A Programmer’s Guide
If you like learning by example, then this straightforward book makes it easy to learn SAS programming. In an instructive and conversational tone, author Ron Cody clearly explains each programming technique and then illustrates it with one or more real-life examples, followed by a detailed description of how the program works. The text is divided into four major sections: Getting Started; DATA Step Processing; Presenting and Summarizing Your Data; and Advanced Topics. Subjects addressed include: Reading data from external sources Learning details of DATA step programming Subsetting and...
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16. | MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 23-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 15-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Manage the huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application with MongoDB. This authoritative introduction—written by a core contributor to the project—shows you the many advantages of using document-oriented databases, and demonstrates how this reliable, high-performance system allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability....
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17. | Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS® By: Tim Rey; Arthur Kordon; Chip Wells Publisher: SAS Institute Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 11-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS®
Written for forecasting practitioners, engineers, statisticians, and economists, the book details how to select useful candidate input variables for time series regression models in environments when the number of candidates is large and identifies the correlation structure between selected candidate inputs and the forecast variable.
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18. | Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes, Third Edition By: Ben Forta Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 31-MAR-2004 Insert Date: 27-APR-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes, Third Edition Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established
itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books, offering a
fast-paced accessible tutorial to the major themes and techniques
involved in applying the SQL language. Forta¿s examples
are clear and his writing style is crisp and concise. As with
earlier editions, this revision includes coverage of current
versions of all major commercial SQL platforms. New this time
around is coverage of MySQL, and PostgreSQL. All examples have been
tested against each SQL platform, with incompatibilities or
platform distinctives called out and...
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19. | Tera-Tom on Teradata Utilities V12-V13 By: Tera-Tom Coffing Publisher: Coffing Publishing Publication Date: 16-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 18-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tera-Tom on Teradata Utilities V12-V13
Teradata Utilities such as BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, TPump, and TPT can be difficult. Not any more because Tera-Tom makes these utilities simple to understand and use.
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20. | Microsoft® Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner By: Michael Vine Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 30-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft® Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner™ series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. Get the jump on computer programming and database concepts with MICROSOFT ACCESS VBA PROGRAMMING FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNER, FOURTH EDITION. In this book, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of computer programming with Microsoft Access 2010 VBA, including variables, conditions, loops, arrays, procedures, and functions. You'll also learn about object relational database design, beginning SQL concepts, reports, and database programming...
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