The fourth edition of this popular pocket guide provides quick-reference information that will help you use Oracle’s PL/SQL language, including the newest Oracle Database 11g features. It’s a companion to Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl’s bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming.

This concise guide boils down the most vital PL/SQL information into an accessible summary of:
Fundamental language elements (e.g., block structure, datatypes, declarations)
Statements for program control, cursor management, and exception handling
Records, procedures, functions, triggers, and packages
Calling PL/SQL functions in SQL
Compilation options, object-oriented features, collections, and Java integration
The new edition describes such Oracle Database 11g elements as PL/SQL’s function result cache, compound triggers, the CONTINUE statement, the SIMPLE_INTEGER datatype, and improvements to native compilation, regular expressions, and compiler optimization (including intra-unit inlining). In addition, this book now includes substantial new sections on Oracle’s built-in functions and packages.

When you need answers quickly, the Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference will save you hours of frustration.

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Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking is a complete beginner’s guide to creating, configuring, administering, and using a small network using Windows Vista computers. Inside you’ll find comprehensive coverage of networking hardware, including Ethernet (wired) hardware (from NICs to cables to switches to routers) and wireless Hardware–from wireless NICs to access points to range extenders.

We include handy âbuyer’s guidesâ that tell you how to make smart choices when purchasing network hardware. With hardware in hand, we then show you how to roll up your shirtsleeves and put everything together, including configuring a router, laying cable, and connecting the devices. Next, we then show you how to wrangle with Windows Vista’s networking features. These techniques include using the Network and Sharing Center, managing wired and wireless connections, accessing shared network resources, sharing local resources on the network, and working with network files offline. And if you are a music and video aficionado, we’ve got you covered with a special chapter that shows you just how to set up a networked Vista PC as your digital media hub!

No networking book would be complete without extensive coverage of security issues that affect anyone connected to the Internet. We show you how to secure each computer, secure your global networking settings, and batten down your wireless connections. The last part of the book includes intermediate networking tasks such as

making remote connections, monitoring the network, troubleshooting network problems, and setting up Vista’s built-in web server and FTP server.

• No longer is networking a topic that only geeks need to understand.
If you have even one computer on the Internet or if you use wireless in your home or office, you need this book!
• Extensive hardware coverage that shows you what equipment to buy and how to set it up!
• Easy to follow buyer’s guides that enable anyone to make smart and informed choices when purchasing networking hardware.
• Complete and comprehensive coverage of Windows Vista’s networking features.
• Thwart hackers, crackers, thieves and other Internet malefactors by following our easy to understand chapters on security!
• Loaded with tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make networking easier and more secure.
• Chock full of real-world examples and network configurations that you can put to work today!

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With full coverage of the latest platform, Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition includes details on the very different and popular Debian (Ubuntu) and Red Hat/Fedora software installation and service management tools used by most distributions. This is a must-have guide for all Linux users, especially for laptop computer, or even a desktop PC.

Install, configure, and administer any Linux distribution
Work with files and folders from the BASH, TCSH, and Z shells
Use the GNOME and KDE desktops, X Windows, display managers, and also printer setup that compatible with Hp toner
Set up office, database, Internet, and multimedia applications
Secure data using SELinux, netfilter, SSH, and Kerberos
Encrypt network transmissions with GPG, LUKS, and IPsec
Deploy FTP, Web, mail, proxy, print, news, and database servers
Administer system resources using HAL, udev, and virtualization (KVM and Xen)
Configure and maintain IPv6, DHCPv6, NIS, networking, and remote access
Access remote files and devices using NFSv4, GFS, PVFS, NIS, and SAMBA

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This book uses many authentic sources such as factual texts, newspaper articles, features and TV schedules, instruction manuals, everyday signs, stories, quizzes, emails and diary entries. Students are encouraged to read material on different levels and in different ways, such as reading for gist, scanning, skimming, comprehension, analysing structure, summarising and shadow reading.

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students are led step-by-step to a definite written outcome through a range of motivating activities such as role plays, discussions, games and text analysis. Each activity provides a meaningful context for real-world writing tasks such as writing e-mails, reports, letters, CVs and diaries. The book encourages students to look at the process of writing, thus developing their awareness of structure, content and their target audience

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TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Web Insecurity Contributing Factors
Chapter 02 - CIS Apache Benchmark
Chapter 03 - Downloading and Installing Apache
Chapter 04 - Configuring the httpd.conf File
Chapter 05 - Essential Security Modules for Apache
Chapter 06 - Using the Center for Internet Security Apache Benchmark Scoring Tool
Chapter 07 - Mitigating the WASC Web Security Threat Classification with Apache
Chapter 08 - Protecting a Flawed Web Application: Buggy Bank
Chapter 09 - Prevention and Countermeasures
Chapter 10 - Open Web Proxy Honeypot
Chapter 11 - Putting It All Together
Appendix A - Web Application Security Consortium Glossary
Appendix B - Apache Module Listing
Appendix C - Example httpd.conf File

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Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server describes how to build a data warehouse completely from scratch and shows practical examples on how to do it. Author Vincent Rainardi also describes some practical issues he has experienced that developers are likely to encounter in their first data warehousing project, along with solutions and advice. The RDBMS used in the examples is SQL Server; the version will not be an issue as long as the user has SQL Server 2005 or later.

The book is organized as follows. In the beginning of this book (Chapters 1 through 6), you learn how to build a data warehouse, for example, defining the architecture, understanding the methodology, gathering the requirements, designing the data models, and creating the databases. Then in Chapters 7 through 10, you learn how to populate the data warehouse, for example, extracting from source systems, loading the data stores, maintaining data quality, and utilizing the metadata. After you populate the data warehouse, in Chapters 11 through 15, you explore how to present data to users using reports and multidimensional databases and how to use the data in the data warehouse for business intelligence, customer relationship management, and other purposes. Chapters 16 and 17 wrap up the book: After you have built your data warehouse, before it can be released to production, you need to test it thoroughly. After your application is in production, you need to understand how to administer data warehouse operation.
What you’ll learn

* A detailed understanding of what it takes to build a data warehouse
* The implementation code in SQL Server to build the data warehouse
* Dimensional modeling, data extraction methods, data warehouse loading, populating dimension and fact tables, data quality, data warehouse architecture, and database design
* Practical data warehousing applications such as business intelligence reports, analytics applications, and customer relationship management

Who is this book for?

There are three audiences for the book. The first are the people who implement the data warehouse. This could be considered a field guide for them. The second is database users/admins who want to get a good understanding of what it would take to build a data warehouse. Finally, the third audience is managers who must make decisions about aspects of the data warehousing task before them and use the book to learn about these issues.

# 523 pages
# Publisher: Apress (December 21, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590599314
# ISBN-13: 978-1590599310

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Write powerful SQL statements and PL/SQL programs

Learn to access Oracle databases through SQL statements and construct PL/SQL programs with guidance from Oracle expert, Jason Price. Published by Oracle Press, Oracle Database 11g SQL explains how to retrieve and modify database information, use SQL Plus and SQL Developer, work with database objects, write PL/SQL programs, and much more. Inside, you'll find in-depth coverage of the very latest SQL features and tools, performance optimization techniques, advanced queries, Java support, and XML. This book contains everything you need to master SQL.

* Explore SQL Plus and SQL Developer
* Use SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
* Write PL/SQL programs
* Create tables, sequences, indexes, views, and triggers
* Write advanced queries containing complex analytical functions
* Create database objects and collections to handle abstract data
* Use large objects to handle multimedia files containing music and movies
* Write Java programs to access an Oracle Database using JDBC
* Tune your SQL statements to make them execute faster
* Explore the XML capabilities of the Oracle Database
* Master the very latest Oracle Database 11g features, such as PIVOT and UNPIVOT, flashback archives, and much more

About the Author

Jason Price is a freelance consultant and former product manager at Oracle Corporation. He has contributed to many of Oracle's products and is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator and Application Developer.

# 656 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 5, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071498508
# ISBN-13: 978-0071498500

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Wireless LAN Radios: System Definition to Transistor Design

This book introduces the nuances of the 802.11 WLAN PHY standards (A/B/G) and describes their specifications and impact on radio design and wireless plans. The possible choices for the radio architecture (direct-conversion, low-IF, super heterodyne) are examined and their impact on the transistor-level design is explained, with the more uses of WLAN standard already issued in several prepaid cell phones, from famous cell phone company in the world. Coverage includes the effect of certain analog/RF impairments on the overall system performance and a discussion of the choice of process technology on the radio architecture.


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The essential reference for core commands that Linux users need daily, along with superior tutorial on shell programming and much moreSystem administrators, software developers, quality assurance engineers and others working on a Linux system need to work from the command line in order to be effective. Linux is famous for its huge number of command line utility programs, and the programs themselves are famous for their large numbers of options, switches, and configuration files

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* Eight minibooks comprising nearly 900 pages give developers the tips and techniques they need to get up and running on the new J2SE 6 (Java Standard Edition 6) and JDK 6 (Java Development Kit 6)
* This friendly, all-inclusive reference delivers the lowdown on Java language and syntax fundamentals as well as Java server-side programming, with explanations, reference information, and how-to instructions for both beginning and intermediate-to-advanced programmers
* Minibooks cover Java basics; programming basics; strings, arrays, and collections; programming techniques; Swing; Web programming; files and databases; and fun and games

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This book helps you find out what you should clean, when, and how. You can dump programs you don't need, archive data, and bring order to your desktop. Here's a handy household hint - getting control of all the clutter on your PC will make it run faster and more efficiently. This book is like a closet full of cleaning tools that help you organize your data and e-mail, archive the stuff you do need to keep, toss old cookies, tune up your file system, and much more. It helps you discover how to create a cleaning schedule; find out what programs you have; clear out your root directory; control your Web cache files; manage Windows updates; and get serious about system security.

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