My Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes have both been published in Chinese by Turing Book . Links are on the books pages. And here is a full list of all book translations.
It's been two and a half years since I published my MySQL Crash Course (a MySQL specific adaptation of my Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes ), and during this time the book has proven to be incredibly popular, especially with MySQL beginners. And today I was informed that MySQL Crash Course is...
George Poulose's Query Tools have long been a core part of my SQL tools and utilities collection. And George just let me know that he has released new Windows 64bit versions of his ODBC and ODO tools.
SQLite is a vital core component of newly released AIR , providing a local SQL data store for your desktop AIR applications. Dave McAllister has announced that Adobe has joined the SQLite Consortium, supporting the continued growth and improvements in SQLite.
Amazon.com has created a feature page highlighting the 3 new ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit books (as well as SQL books that may be of interest to ColdFusion developers).
The Microsoft bookstore (on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA) has only sold Microsoft Press books to date. But, starting next week they will be selling select books published by other publishers. And apparently my Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes is one that they have...
MySQL has released a beta of a new version of their Java driver. As per this post , MySQL Connector/J 5.1.2 is a Type-IV pure-Java JDBC driver that is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon alpha release. And this new driver...
Pinalkumar Dave is a DBA with extensive SQL Server (and ColdFusion) experience. I just stumbled upon his blog SQL Authority (via a link in a comment on my own blog) and am more than impressed by some of his SQL Server related posts. If you use SQL Server, then this is one blog you should add to...
After lots of rather painful delays, my new book Sams Teach Yourself SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes is ready to ship. This book (which is the SQL Server version of my MySQL Crash Course ) is based on my best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes and goes in to far more detail than the...
Like many DBMSs, Apache Derby (included with ColdFusion 8) supports identity fields - fields that auto-increment each time a row is add. These are commonly used for primary key values, as the DBMS itself ensures that these values are unique and never reused. One problem with identity fields is that...