Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition:
Clearly Explained 3e
Morgan Kaufmann | 2009 | ISBN-13: 978-0123747303 | PDF | 440p | 8.7 mb
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Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementation, and administration. This book provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of experience level or choice of DBMS.
The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then briefly reviews the SQL one would use to create databases. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities and Codd’s Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely but without resorting to “Dummies”-style talking down to the reader.
Supporting the book’s step-by-step instruction are three NEW case studies illustrating database planning, analysis, design, and management practices. In addition to these real-world examples, which include object-relational design techniques, an entirely NEW section consisting of three chapters is devoted to database implementation and management issues. more…

Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping in C# 2008 DVD | 1.4 GB
The powerful advantages that OR/M can bring to your code
The native tools that are now available within Visual Studio 2008 for OR/M
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Using LINQ to SQL in place of SQL Statements in VB.NET
Genre: eLearning
C# 3.0 incorporates LINQ (Language INtegrated Query), a cool technology that adds dynamic queries to all kinds of objects in a familiar SQL-like style. LINQ code looks like embedded SQL statements, which I actually don’t care for because SQL has never looked pretty to me. more…

Title: How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition

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A 2nd edition of Brad McGehee’s popular “career guide” for DBAs, designed to help new and prospective DBAs find their feet in the profession, and to advise those more-experienced on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs. more…

TrainSignal – SQL Server 2008 Administration
HF | 405 mb
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SQL Server 2008 Administration Training Course Outline more…

SQL Fundamentals, 3rd Edition
Prentice Hall PTR | ISBN: 0137126026 | September 12, 2008 | 832 pages | PDF | 6MB

SQL Fundamentals deserves praise because it documents the implementation of Structured Query Language (SQL) in Oracle databases and Access databases simultaneously. Readers find out how to do simple single-table queries, more complicated multitable queries, table creation, joins, unions, and calculations in both environments in a variety of circumstances. more…

Expert Oracle Database Architecture:
Oracle Database Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition
Apress | 2010 | pdf | 1430229469 | 832p | 6.4mb
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Now in its second edition, this best-selling book by Tom Kyte of Ask Tom fame continues to bring you some of the best thinking on how to apply Oracle Database to produce scalable applications that perform well and deliver correct results. Tom has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, then you’ll find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly.

This fully revised second edition covers the latest developments in Oracle Database 11g. Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing what it is, but also how it works, how to implement software using it, and the common pitfalls associated with it. more…