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SQL in a Nutshell

A Desktop Quick Reference

by Kevin Kline, Regina O. Obe, Leo S. Hsu ...

For programmers, analysts, and database administrators, this Nutshell guide is the essential reference for the SQL language used in today's most popular database products. This new fourth edition clearly documents SQL commands according to the latest ANSI/ISO standard and details how those commands are implemented in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Oracle 19c, as well as in the MySQL 8, MariaDB 10.5 ... Read more

$48.99 USD

For programmers, analysts, and database administrators, this Nutshell guide is the essential reference for the SQL language used in today's most popular database products. This new fourth edition clearly documents SQL commands according to the latest ANSI/ISO standard and details how those commands are implemented in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Oracle 19c, as well as in the MySQL 8, MariaDB 10.5
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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS, and OWL

by James Hendler, Fabien Gandon, Dean Allemang ...

Series series ACM Books
Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, markets, and products. But as the world of business becomes more interconnected and global, enterprise data is no long a monolith; it is just a part of a vast web of data. Managing data on a world-wide scale is a key capability for any business today ... Read more

$43.19 USD

Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, markets, and products. But as the world of business becomes more interconnected and global, enterprise data is no long a monolith; it is just a part of a vast web of data. Managing data on a world-wide scale is a key capability for any business today
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Business Value in an Ocean of Data

Data Mining from a User Perspective

by Bulcsú Fajszi, László Cser, Tamás Fehér ...

"[...] This is a great book about how to find the value creating opportunities and how to utilize them. Reading it is a must for managers who understand that data became an extremely important source of competitive advantage in today's business." György Bőgel - CEU Business School (Hungary) "This book provides an excellent overview over business intelligence applications. [...] Real-life examples ... Read more

$9.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"[...] This is a great book about how to find the value creating opportunities and how to utilize them. Reading it is a must for managers who understand that data became an extremely important source of competitive advantage in today's business." György Bőgel - CEU Business School (Hungary) "This book provides an excellent overview over business intelligence applications. [...] Real-life examples
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"Artificial Intelligence: How Does It Work? And How to Use It?"

by Sabry Fattah ...

In a world increasingly driven by technological advancements, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer, transforming industries and revolutionizing the way we live and work. This book is a must-read guide that takes you on an exhilarating journey into the realm of AI, unraveling its inner workings and empowering you to leverage its potential.This book is meticulously crafted to ... Read more

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In a world increasingly driven by technological advancements, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer, transforming industries and revolutionizing the way we live and work. This book is a must-read guide that takes you on an exhilarating journey into the realm of AI, unraveling its inner workings and empowering you to leverage its potential.This book is meticulously crafted to
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Integrating Excel and Access

Combining Applications to Solve Business Problems

by Michael Schmalz ...

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now.Introducing Integrating Excel and Access, the unique reference that shows you how to combine the ... Read more

$23.09 USD

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now.Introducing Integrating Excel and Access, the unique reference that shows you how to combine the
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AI-Assisted SDD: Spec-Driven Development with Gemini, Claude, and ai-sdd

by LEONARDO SAMPAIO ...

THE UNIVERSAL METHODOLOGY FOR AI-ASSISTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTAre you using AI assistants like Claude or Gemini to build software 10x faster—but STILL rebuilding features, firefighting bugs, and realizing "that's not what we asked for"?Here's why: AI without structure just amplifies chaos. You're building the wrong thing 10x faster.This book introduces a universal, future-proof methodology for ... Read more

$9.99 USD

THE UNIVERSAL METHODOLOGY FOR AI-ASSISTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTAre you using AI assistants like Claude or Gemini to build software 10x faster—but STILL rebuilding features, firefighting bugs, and realizing "that's not what we asked for"?Here's why: AI without structure just amplifies chaos. You're building the wrong thing 10x faster.This book introduces a universal, future-proof methodology for
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50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers

Get the Most Out of Your Database

by Kristina Chodorow ...

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and ... Read more

$13.09 USD

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and
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Engineering Ontologies and Ontologies for Engineering

by João Paulo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi ...

This volume celebrates the career of Prof. Ricardo de Almeida Falbo on the occasion of his formal retirement. The volume includes reflections from collaborators and former students, casting light on his academic work and contributions.The chapters show how Falbo's original contributions have influenced a number of developments in the application of Software Engineering practices to Ontology ... Read more

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This volume celebrates the career of Prof. Ricardo de Almeida Falbo on the occasion of his formal retirement. The volume includes reflections from collaborators and former students, casting light on his academic work and contributions.The chapters show how Falbo's original contributions have influenced a number of developments in the application of Software Engineering practices to Ontology
... Read more
Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python

by Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili ...

This book of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Python Machine Learning series is a comprehensive guide to machine and deep learning using PyTorch s simple to code framework. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn applied machine learning with a solid foundation in theoryClear, intuitive explanations take you deep into the theory and practice ... Read more

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This book of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Python Machine Learning series is a comprehensive guide to machine and deep learning using PyTorch s simple to code framework. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn applied machine learning with a solid foundation in theoryClear, intuitive explanations take you deep into the theory and practice
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Claude For Dummies

by Stephanie Diamond ...

Tackle your workload with ClaudeClaude For Dummies gets you started with the AI program that’s made to help you find solutions to your toughest problems. With this beginner-friendly guide, you can learn to write effective prompts, fact-check results, and get things done faster with Claude’s help. Not sure where to start? This Dummies guide has your back, with ideas for what you can (and can’t) do ... Read more

$16.00 USD

Tackle your workload with ClaudeClaude For Dummies gets you started with the AI program that’s made to help you find solutions to your toughest problems. With this beginner-friendly guide, you can learn to write effective prompts, fact-check results, and get things done faster with Claude’s help. Not sure where to start? This Dummies guide has your back, with ideas for what you can (and can’t) do
... Read more
Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

by Mark E.Jeftovic ...

This book will give you an all encompassing view of the domain name ecosystem combined with a comprehensive set of operations strategies. Key FeaturesManage infrastructure, risk, and management of DNS name servers. Get hands-on with factors like types of name servers, DNS queries and and so on.Practical guide for system administrators to manage mission-critical serversBased on real-world ... Read more

$37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book will give you an all encompassing view of the domain name ecosystem combined with a comprehensive set of operations strategies. Key FeaturesManage infrastructure, risk, and management of DNS name servers. Get hands-on with factors like types of name servers, DNS queries and and so on.Practical guide for system administrators to manage mission-critical serversBased on real-world
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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan

Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques

by Marco Castorina, Gabriel Sassone ...

Develop a rendering framework in this part-color guide by implementing next-generation 3D graphics, leveraging advanced Vulkan features, and getting familiar with efficient real-time ray tracing techniques uncovered by leading industry veterans, Marco Castorina and Gabriel SassoneKey FeaturesUse a pre-built "Raptor" engine to abstract tedious aspects like file systems, memory allocation, and ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Develop a rendering framework in this part-color guide by implementing next-generation 3D graphics, leveraging advanced Vulkan features, and getting familiar with efficient real-time ray tracing techniques uncovered by leading industry veterans, Marco Castorina and Gabriel SassoneKey FeaturesUse a pre-built "Raptor" engine to abstract tedious aspects like file systems, memory allocation, and
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Windows Command Prompt A-N

by Prometheus MMS ...

This book will save your time of search and get help.It contains all windows command prompt commands. Command Prompt is a command line interpreter application available in most Windows operating systems. Command Prompt is officially called Windows Command Processor but is also sometimes called the command shell or by its file name cmd.exe. Note: Command Prompt is sometimes incorrectly referred to ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book will save your time of search and get help.It contains all windows command prompt commands. Command Prompt is a command line interpreter application available in most Windows operating systems. Command Prompt is officially called Windows Command Processor but is also sometimes called the command shell or by its file name cmd.exe. Note: Command Prompt is sometimes incorrectly referred to
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Designing the Search Experience

The Information Architecture of Discovery

by Tony Russell-Rose, Tyler Tate ...

Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search.In Designing the Search Experience, authors Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate weave together the theories of information seeking with the practice of ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search.In Designing the Search Experience, authors Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate weave together the theories of information seeking with the practice of
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Interviewing Users

How to Uncover Compelling Insights

by Steve Portigal ...

Interviewing is easy, right? Anyone can do it… but few do it well enough to unlock the benefits and insights that interviewing users and customers can yield.In this new and updated edition of the acclaimed classic Interviewing Users, Steve Portigal quickly and effectively dispels the myth that interviewing is trivial. He shows how research studies and logistics can be used to determine concrete ... Read more

$38.69 USD

Interviewing is easy, right? Anyone can do it… but few do it well enough to unlock the benefits and insights that interviewing users and customers can yield.In this new and updated edition of the acclaimed classic Interviewing Users, Steve Portigal quickly and effectively dispels the myth that interviewing is trivial. He shows how research studies and logistics can be used to determine concrete
... Read more
Vector Databases

A Practical Introduction

by Nitin Borwankar ...

The AI revolution is here, and at its core lies a game-changing technology that most developers haven’t fully explored: vector databases. From powering semantic search to enabling large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, vector databases are reshaping how we build applications with unstructured data like text, images, and audio. But how do you go from curious to capable with this vital ... Read more

$43.19 USD

The AI revolution is here, and at its core lies a game-changing technology that most developers haven’t fully explored: vector databases. From powering semantic search to enabling large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, vector databases are reshaping how we build applications with unstructured data like text, images, and audio. But how do you go from curious to capable with this vital
... Read more
The Data Journalism Handbook

How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

$10.69 USD

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European
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Stylish F#

Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET and .NET Core

by Kit Eason ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Why just get by in F# when you can program in style! This book goes beyond syntax and into design. It provides F# developers with best practices, guidance, and advice to write beautiful, maintainable, and correct code.Stylish F# covers every design decision that a developer makes in constructing F# programs, helping you make the most educated and valuable design choices at every stage of code ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Why just get by in F# when you can program in style! This book goes beyond syntax and into design. It provides F# developers with best practices, guidance, and advice to write beautiful, maintainable, and correct code.Stylish F# covers every design decision that a developer makes in constructing F# programs, helping you make the most educated and valuable design choices at every stage of code
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Second Lives

A Journey Through Virtual Worlds

by Tim Guest ...

We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited every week by nearly fifty million people worldwide. Each participant creates a virtual body, works ... Read more

$3.99 USD

We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited every week by nearly fifty million people worldwide. Each participant creates a virtual body, works
... Read more
Getting Started with CouchDB

Extreme Scalability at Your Fingertips

by MC Brown ...

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The code ... Read more

$13.09 USD

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The code
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The Essential Persona Lifecycle

Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

by Tamara Adlin, John Pruitt ...

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation ... Read more

$28.79 USD

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation
... Read more
DAX Patterns

Second Edition

by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari ...

A pattern is a general, reusable solution to a frequent or common challenge. This book is the second edition of the most comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions in DAX, that you can use in Microsoft Power BI, Analysis Services Tabular, and Power Pivot for Excel.The book includes the following patterns: Time-related calculations, Standard time-related calculations, Month-related ... Read more

$28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A pattern is a general, reusable solution to a frequent or common challenge. This book is the second edition of the most comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions in DAX, that you can use in Microsoft Power BI, Analysis Services Tabular, and Power Pivot for Excel.The book includes the following patterns: Time-related calculations, Standard time-related calculations, Month-related
... Read more
Learning Web Design

A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Images

by Jennifer Robbins ...

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various
... Read more
Mastering Claude AI : The Complete Beginner's Guide to Prompt Engineering, Automating Work, and Saving Time

by Himanshoo Jaiswal ...

Stop typing. Start commanding.The modern professional is drowning in digital friction. You lose hours every day to endless emails, messy spreadsheets, and the terrifying paralysis of the blank page. You are burning elite cognitive energy on robotic, administrative chores.It is time to build your digital workforce.Mastering Claude AI strips away the theoretical hype to deliver a tactical, zero ... Read more

$4.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Stop typing. Start commanding.The modern professional is drowning in digital friction. You lose hours every day to endless emails, messy spreadsheets, and the terrifying paralysis of the blank page. You are burning elite cognitive energy on robotic, administrative chores.It is time to build your digital workforce.Mastering Claude AI strips away the theoretical hype to deliver a tactical, zero
... Read more

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