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Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition

Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 20-AUG-2012

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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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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2010

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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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Head First SQL

Head First SQL

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 28-AUG-2007

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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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Oracle® SQL by Example, Fourth Edition

Oracle® SQL by Example, Fourth Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 12-AUG-2009

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“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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Machine Learning in Action

Machine Learning in Action

By: Peter Harrington

Publisher: Manning Publications

Publication Date: 28-APR-2012

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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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Tera-Tom's 1000 page e-Book on Teradata

Tera-Tom's 1000 page e-Book on Teradata

By: Tera-Tom Coffing

Publisher: Coffing Publishing

Publication Date: 13-JUL-2012

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This book covers the Teradata Architecture with brilliant simplicity and every SQL command in detail! ...

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Tera-Tom on Teradata Basics V12

Tera-Tom on Teradata Basics V12

By: Tera-Tom Coffing

Publisher: Coffing Publishing

Publication Date: 01-FEB-2011

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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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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition

By: Ben Forta

Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 25-OCT-2012

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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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Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide Second Edition

Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide Second Edition

By: Paul Allison

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 01-MAR-2010

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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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Star Schema: The Complete Reference™

Star Schema: The Complete Reference™

By: Christopher Adamson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 30-JUL-2010

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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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Tera-Tom on Teradata SQL V12-V13

Tera-Tom on Teradata SQL V12-V13

By: Tera-Tom Coffing

Publisher: Coffing Publishing

Publication Date: 16-JUL-2011

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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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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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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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MongoDB Applied Design Patterns

MongoDB Applied Design Patterns

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 18-MAR-2013

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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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Learning SAS® by Example: A Programmer’s Guide

Learning SAS® by Example: A Programmer’s Guide

By: Ron Cody

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 29-MAR-2007

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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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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 23-MAY-2013

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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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Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS®

Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS®

By: Tim Rey; Arthur Kordon; Chip Wells

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012

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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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Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes, Third Edition

Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes, Third Edition

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 31-MAR-2004

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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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Tera-Tom on Teradata Utilities V12-V13

Tera-Tom on Teradata Utilities V12-V13

By: Tera-Tom Coffing

Publisher: Coffing Publishing

Publication Date: 16-JUL-2011

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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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Microsoft® Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Microsoft® Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner

By: Michael Vine

Publisher: Course Technology PTR

Publication Date: 30-DEC-2011

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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...