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1. |  Getting Started with Amazon Redshift By: Stefan Bauer; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Started with Amazon Redshift
Enter the exciting world of Amazon Redshift for big data, cloud computing, and scalable Data Warehousing
Step-by-step instructions to create and manage your Redshift cluster
Understand the technology behind the database engine, as you learn about compression, block level storage, and column stores
Learn the implementation and database design considerations you will need to understand to successfully implement your own Amazon Redshift cluster
In Detail
Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. It provides an excellent approach to...
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2. |  By: Alan Calder Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 01-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Governance: A Pocket Guide
An Introduction to IT Governance
If you are unsure what IT governance is, or how it is relevant to your business, this pocket guide is for you. It outlines the key drivers for IT governance in the modern global economy, with particular reference to corporate governance requirements and the need for companies to protect their information assets.
IT Governance for "Non-geeks"
The guide examines the role of IT governance in the management of strategic and operational risk. It also looks at the most important considerations when setting up an IT governance framework, and introduces...
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3. |  Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials By: Stefan Kohler; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 10-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials
Learn how to install, configure, and manage Atlassian Confluence 5 to build an enterprise-grade collaboration platform
Create and manage project documentation with Confluence
Share and collaborate on documentation between departments and teams
Install, configure, manage, and extend Confluence
In Detail
Every idea, concept, and project needs documentation, which is traditionally kept in a variety of documents on different devices. Confluence 5 centralizes that documentation and provides it in one single location, available from almost any device and location.
Atlassian...
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4. |  By: Harlan Harris; Sean Murphy; Marck Vaisman Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analyzing the Analyzers There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations requiring their services. This lack of clarity has frequently led to missed opportunities. To address this issue, we surveyed several hundred practitioners via the Web to explore the varieties of skills, experiences, and viewpoints in the emerging data science...
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5. |  By: Ryan Stephens; Ronald Plew; Arie Jones Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 23-APR-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL, 5e édition
Ce livre, qui offre une initiation efficace et globale à la norme SQL (Structured Query Language), vous permettra de construire de puissantes bases de données relationnelles.
Très pédagogique, il vous apprendra notamment à :
extraire, trier et regrouper les données
créer et gérer des objets dans un SGBD (système de gestion de bases de données)
définir les structures des données
sécuriser les actions par l'utilisation de transactions
concevoir des requêtes élaborées
gérer les utilisateurs et améliorer les performances
Cette nouvelle édition prend en compte les...
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Instant Apache Hive Essentials How-to By: Darren Lee; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant Apache Hive Essentials How-to
Leverage your knowledge of SQL to easily write distributed data processing applications on Hadoop using Apache Hive
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Learn to use SQL to write Hadoop jobs
Add support for data to Hive in your own file formats
Understand how the Hive query processor works to optimize common queries
In Detail
Hadoop provides a robust framework for building distributed applications, but working directly with Hadoop requires writing a lot of code. Adding structure to data and using a higher-level...
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7. |  By: Luke Welling; Laura Thomson Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP & MySQL, 4e édition
Les technologies open-source PHP et MySQL sont les plus populaires au monde pour développer rapidement des sites ou des applications web faisant appel à des bases de données.
Cet ouvrage complet expose avec clarté et exhaustivité comment combiner ces deux outils pour produire des sites web dynamiques, de leur expression la plus simple à des sites de commerce électronique sécurisés et complexes. Il présente en détail le langage PHP, montre comment mettre en place et utiliser une base de données MySQL, puis explique comment utiliser PHP pour interagir avec la base de données et le serveur...
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8. |  By: Peter Zadrozny; Raghu Kodali Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the days when you need be caught out by shifting public opinion or sudden changes in customer behavior. Splunk's easy to use engine helps you recognize and react in real time, as events are...
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9. |  The Data Governance Imperative By: Steve Sarsfield Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 23-APR-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Data Governance Imperative
"Take control of your data for a more intelligent, responsive business
Proactive management of your corporate information has never been more important. Data governance isn't a challenge solely for the IT team - it's every inch a business issue.
Seamless processes and a personal commitment to clean data give you the ability to generate accurate business intelligence and financial reports, and gain an instant snap shot of the health of your business. Most importantly, they also help you run a more intelligent, agile, fast-moving business than your competitors.
The Data Governance...
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Instant Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to By: Alexandre Rafalovitch; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 05-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 09-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to
Learn how to index your data correctly and create better search experiences with Apache
Solr
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Take the most basic schema and extend it to support multi-lingual, multi-field searches
Make Solr pull data from a variety of existing sources
Discover different pathways to acquire and normalize data and content
In Detail
Content and data searching is a very important part of the modern user experience, and before something can be searched, it has to be indexed. Indexing is a hidden...
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Instant MapReduce Patterns – Hadoop Essentials How-to By: Srinath Perera; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 07-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant MapReduce Patterns – Hadoop Essentials How-to
Practical recipes to write your own MapReduce solution patterns for Hadoop programs
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Learn how to install, configure, and run Hadoop jobs
Seven recipes, each describing a particular style of the MapReduce program to give you a good understanding of how to program with MapReduce
A concise introduction to Hadoop and common MapReduce patterns
In Detail
MapReduce is a technology that enables users to process large datasets and Hadoop is an implementation of MapReduce. We are...
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12. |  By: Sven Röpstorff; Robert Wiechmann Publisher: dpunkt Publication Date: 14-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Scrum in der Praxis ein Buch aus der Praxis für die Praxis mit vielen Beispielen und Checklisten Erklärung der Methodik über ein Projekt (projektchronologische Reihenfolge der Kapitel)
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13. |  IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager By: Terry Curran; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager
A complete, practical guide to using this essential tool for modeling your data for use with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Reporting
Your complete and practical guide to IBM Cognos Framework Manager
Full of illustrations and tips for making the best use of this essential tool, with clear step-by-step instructions and practical examples
All the information you need, starting where the product manual ends
In Detail
"IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager" is a complete practical guide to using and getting the best out of this essential tool for modeling your data for use with...
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Instant Redis Optimization How-to By: Arun Chinnachamy; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 23-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant Redis Optimization How-to
Learn how to tune and optimize Redis for high performance
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Install, fine-tune, and add Redis to your application stack.
Perform bulk writes into Redis efficiently
Debug and troubleshoot Redis
In Detail
The database is the backbone of any application and Redis is a next generation NoSQL database which can provide ultra-fast performance if tuned and calibrated correctly. Instant Redis Optimization How-to will show you how to leverage Redis in your application for greater...
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15. | Rough Cuts  By: Khaled El Emam; Luk Arbuckle Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-OCT-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 | Overview: Anonymizing Health Data Clinical and research organizations increasingly want to share patient data, and robust de-identification is crucial to meet legal obligations and or ethical reasons. This book, written by two leading experts in de-identification, explains how to adhere to regulations in a defensible way to protect sensitive patient data. Numerous case studies are included from settings that range from typical clinical treatment to disease registries....
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16. |  Relational Theory for Computer Professionals By: C.J. Date Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Relational Theory for Computer Professionals This book shows you what a real relational product would be like, and how and why it would be so much better than what’s currently available. Most books try to use SQL as a vehicle for teaching relational theory, but this book deliberately takes the opposite approach. Its primary aim is to teach relational theory as such. Then it uses that theory as a vehicle for teaching SQL, showing in particular how that theory can help with the practical problem of using SQL correctly and productively....
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17. |  SQL Server Transaction Log Management By: Tony Davis; Gail Shaw Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 21-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server Transaction Log Management
When a SQL Server database is operating smoothly and performing well, there is no need to be particularly aware of the transaction log, beyond ensuring that every database has an appropriate backup regime and restore plan in place. When things go wrong, however, a DBA's reputation depends on a deeper understanding of the transaction log, both what it does, and how it works. An effective response to a crisis requires rapid decisions based on understanding its role in ensuring data integrity.
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18. |  Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS By: Anders Milhøj Publisher: SAS Institute Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS
Anders Milhøj's Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS explains and demonstrates through examples how you can use SAS for time series analysis. It offers modern procedures for forecasting, seasonal adjustments, and decomposition of time series that can be used without involved statistical reasoning. The book teaches, with numerous examples, how to apply these procedures with very simple coding. In addition, it also gives the statistical background for interested readers. Beginning with an introductory chapter that covers the practical handling of time series data in SAS using the...
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19. |  SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition By: Grant Fritchey Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 12-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition
Every day the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? My response is the same in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? An execution plan describes what's going on behind the scenes when SQL Server executes a query. It shows how the query optimizer joined the data from the various tables defined in the query, which indexes it used, if any, how it performed any aggregations or sorting, and much more. It also estimates the cost of all of these operations, in terms of the relative load placed on the system....
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20. |  Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook By: Christophe Dupupet; Denis Gray; Peter C. Boyd-Bowman; Julien Testut Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook
Over 60 fieldtested recipes for successful data integration projects with Oracle Data
Integrator
Clear, step-by-step recipes to walk you through some of the most advanced features of Oracle Data Integrator
Covers everything from administration, to development, to deployment, including advanced coding techniques using the Oracle Data Integrator SDK
Numerous code samples, screenshots, diagrams, and best practice recommendations
In Detail
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracle's strategic data integration platform for high-speed data transformation and movement between...
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