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The integrity and security of your database is crucial to your business. SQL Server 2008 is a massive and mature product with a very large feature set. As a SQL Server administrator, you must be equipped to handle myriad day-to-day tasks to keep your database healthy, and you must also be prepared to act quickly when something unexpected happens.
SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action offers over 100 DBA-tested, high-value, best practices that will help you tame the beast and keep it under control. Unlike the many comprehensive SQL Server reference tomes out there that attempt to cover the whole SQL Server feature set, this book drills down on the techniques, procedures, and practices that help you keep your database running like clockwork.
SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action focuses the production DBA, digging deep into the various tasks specific to that role. Expert author Rod Colledge–check him out at sqlCrunch.com–teaches you best practices that cover the lifecycle of a SQL Server system, including infrastructure design, installation, and operational maintenance. And while many of these techniques will work in any recent version of SQL Server, you’ll find full coverage of emerging SQL Server 2008 best practices.
Each technique is presented in a task-driven style, and in the order of the typical life cycle of a SQL Server system. This allows you to easily open the book at the appropriate page and focus on what you need to know for each specific situation.
WHAT’S INSIDE:
- Selecting and configuring server components
- Distributing I/O load over multiple controllers
- Selecting the appropriate stripe size
- Configuring storage cache
- Preparing for SQL Server clustering
- Configure the private network for cluster use only
- Configure the cluster network priority
- Prepare resources for a clustered SQL Server installation
- Index selection and maintenance
- Identify and drop unused indexes
- Identify and create missing indexes
- Select the appropriate clustered index
- Database mirroring
- Prepare the mirror server for failover
- Select the appropriate failover mode
- Consider disabling log stream compression for CPU bottlenecked systems
- Upgrading SQL Server
- Reduce downtime with T-Log backup/restore and the side-by-side upgrade method
- Prior to an upgrade, run DBCC checks and take full backups with verification
- Ensure read only is not enabled prior to the upgrade
This book is a DBA’s best friend. It covers the most important and often overlooked areas that you need to maintain to keep your databases secure, in-tune, and well-protected in the event of disaster.
About the Author
Rod Colledge is an independent SQL Server consultant based in Brisbane, Australia. Since 1996, Rod has specialized in the development and administration of SQL Server database systems. His recent work has included the design and implementation of custom transactional replication and log shipping solutions, performance tuning large, high-volume databases, and developing procedures for operational maintenance of large database systems. In September 2007, Rod founded sqlCrunch.com, a website specializing in summarizing and categorizing links to SQL Server white papers and best practices.
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Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site’s appearance. Tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and step-by-step tutorials to help you build new websites with CSS, or refurbish old sites that are due for an upgrade.
Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site’s appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with
CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. You’ll learn how to:
- Create HTML that’s simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS
- Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders
- Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars — complete with rollover effects
- Create effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows
- Get up to speed on CSS 3 properties that work in the latest browser versions
- Build complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs
- Style web pages for printing
With CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, you’ll find all-new online tutorial pages, expanded CSS 3 coverage, and broad support for Firebox, Safari, and other major web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8. Learn how to use CSS effectively to build new websites, or refurbish old sites that are due for an upgrade.
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In Detail
Writing appealing cross-device applications today in Java ME is challenging as implementation differences in fonts, layout, and menus can make your application look and behave very differently on different devices. So far, the only way out has been low-level programming with its associated complexity.
The Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT), an open source Java library, offers Java ME developers an easy-to-use API for creating impressive user interfaces with a device-independent look and feel. The LWUIT library contains many components and tools for bringing consistency and visual gloss to the user interface of your applications, and this book will take you through all of this, to help you get the user interfaces you want.
Java ME allows us to write applications that are, generally speaking, portable across a wide range of small devices that support the platform. While the basic functionalities usually work well on all supported devices, the area that does pose problems for developers is the User Interface. Native implementations of javax.microedition.lcdui � the primary API for UIs in Java ME � differ so widely from one device to another that maintaining a device-independent and uniform look and feel is virtually impossible. Another problem with the javax.microedition.lcdui package is that it does not support components and capabilities that can fully satisfy present day user expectations. The Lightweight UI Toolkit is the solution to these problems. LWUIT offers a wide range of components with a device-independent look and feel for building UIs. While some of these widgets are also available under lcdui, there are a number of new ones too. These additions enable application developers to design UIs that can come very close to their desktop counterparts in terms of visual sophistication and LWUIT is not just about new components either. The API supports a whole range of new functionalities (like Theming and Transitions) too.
This book takes Java ME developers through the library, with examples showing how to use the main components and functionalities. It also goes beyond a description of what is available by showing how to extend the library by plugging in custom-built classes.
What you will learn from this book
- Customize the way common components appear on screen for a unique look and feel
- Add user interface elements to your applications and learn how to style them
- Assemble sophisticated interfaces using containers, labels, and lists
- Enhance the organization of your interface using layout managers
- Add animations and transitions to your application
- Create a theme to ensure visual coherence in your application
- Use painters and painter chains for attractive backgrounds and superimposed patterns with components
- Create resources with the LWUIT Designer
- Build custom components by extending Component class Debug applications using the Log class
Approach
This book presents LWUIT through an optimum mix of theory and practice. Classes are described and their applications are demonstrated through a large number of examples. Example code is thoroughly analyzed and many screenshots are included to show what happens when the code is executed. Custom classes are built progressively with a thorough explanation of each step. The book also presents the underlying structural features of LWUIT that are important for skillful use of the API
Who this book is written for
This book is for Java ME developers who want to create compelling user interfaces for Java ME applications, and want to use LWUIT to make this happen
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八月 27th, 2009 in
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Introduction
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There are more than five billion websites worldwide, all using HTML to structure their Web pages
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Previous editions sold 40,000 copies
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Structured pedagogy and hands-on focus ensures readers are productive from the first chapter
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An Instructor’s Manual is available for this edition
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Essential HTML Skills–Made Easy!
Create highly functional, impressive websites in no time. Fully updated and revised, HTML: A Beginner’s Guide, Fourth Edition explains how to structure a page, place images, format text, create links, add color, work with multimedia, and use forms. You’ll also go beyond the basics and learn how to save your own web graphics, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), create dynamic web content with basic JavaScript, and upload your site to the web. By the end of the book you’ll be able to build custom websites using the latest HTML techniques. An all-new chapter also covers creating HTML for e-mail, a hot-button issue for any business seeking to reach its target audience through online communication.
Designed for Easy Learning
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Key Skills & Concepts–Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
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Ask the Expert–Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
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Try This–Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
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Notes–Extra information related to the topic being covered
- Tips–Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
- Self-Tests–Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
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Online Marketing Inside Out is an invaluable book for anyone wanting to market products or services online – whether or not marketing is part of your job description. Small-business entrepreneurs and web-site owners will benefit from this information-packed book, as will traditional marketers with little or no experience of online marketing. Full Description
Online Marketing Inside Out is an invaluable book for anyone wanting to market products or services online – whether or not marketing is part of your job description. Small-business entrepreneurs and web-site owners will benefit from this information-packed book, as will traditional marketers with little or no experience of online marketing.
With so many potential customers online this book will show you how to reach and interact with them through podcasting, blogs, social networks, video, email, and contextual advertising. This book doesn’t just cover the basics, it is inspiring reading for anyone looking for new ways to reach new and larger customer bases.
You will learn about:
* The changing face of marketing
* The new frontier of PR and media
* Using your web site to generate income
* Getting the most from the search engine crowd
* Promote your message through socializing
* Implementing profitable email marketing campaigns
* Getting others to sell your products for you
* Spreading your message through online advertising.
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八月 22nd, 2009 in
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