Customer Review: I am coming from a VBA background learning about this new software. This book is a great resource tool for making such a transition. Mr. McAmis stepped me through the learning process in a clear and concise manner. The information was learned in progressive manner, in that, the further through the... more info
Customer Review: Although is a good summary and a step-by-step for novice Administrators it shows almost nothing that is not in BOL. If you are an experienced DBA this book is not for you.
Customer Review: Theres plenty of information in here, but the biggest problem I had with working my way through the book is it's structure. The book presents the topics in a bottom-up way, kicking off with low-level xinetd & init configuration, and doesn't actually get down to an overview of clustering until... more info
Customer Review: This book reminds me of one of the old WROX books written by 23 different authors who were not told what the title was, and were not allowed to take their ADHD medicine while writing the book. Every chapter is some sort of between content. What I mean by that is they skipped the background,... more info
Customer Review: If you are a beginner at WCF, go somewhere else. They do not really show you how to implement a lot of the technology discussed. It is very academic and school-like, in a sense that it tells you whats available, but doesn't explain how to use it in a real world business. It is also all over the... more info
Customer Review: I'm a software developer and avid reader of math and tech books.
This book seems to cover a wide variety of topics in a very superficial way.
A good author will keep the readers imagining and solving problems before they learn the specific topic from the book itself and the author will... more info
Customer Review: The book gives an excellent description for advanced topics in synchronization problems( at least this topics are advanced for an ordinary engineer who has hardly encountered something beside read-write spin locks and semaphores ). In my opinion one of the most interesting chapters are those that... more info
