Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed discussions of the internal workings of transaction processing systems, and it discusses how these systems work and how best to utilize them. It covers the architecture of Web Application Servers and transactional communication paradigms.The book is divided into 11 chapters, which cover the following: Overview of transa...

For the new or veteran DBA: Whether you're skeptical or enthusiastic about new types of databases this book contains all you need to understand about when and how to implement NoSQL technology in your Cloud Applications. In this guide, you'll get answers to these questions and more; you'll learn exactly what NoSQL is, why it's needed, how it works, and when it should (and shouldn't) be used.

The visual way to get up to speed on Access 2010It's one thing to gain access to Access. It's another thing entirely to figure out how to do all the things you want to do in Access, because the software is not all that intuitive. This full-color guide clearly shows you how to get the most out of Access 2010, including how to enter new records; create, edit, and design tables and forms; organize, analyze, and share data; generate concise reports; and much more.With pages of ...

Understand Microsoft's dramatically updated new release of its premier toolset for business intelligenceThe first major update to Microsoft's state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product's development team? If you're a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensio...

Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you’ll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You’ll learn how tidytext and other tidy tools in R can make text analysis easier and more effective....

Your hands-on guide to Azure SQL Database fundamentalsExpand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure SQL Database. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Azure, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.Discover how to:Perform Azure setup and configurationExplore design and security considerationsUse p...

A complete solutions guide to Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and overall cloud storage management.Oracle Cloud Storage Management contains the latest information on the inner-workings of Oracle ASM and Oracle's overall cloud storage management strategy. This Oracle Press guide explains how to build and manage a scalable cloud storage infrastructure with Oracle ASM. You’ll learn how to configure cloud storage solutions, build disk groups, use data striping and ...

If you’re like many of Excel’s 750 million users, you want to do more with your data—like repeating similar analyses over hundreds of files, or combining data in many files for analysis at one time. This practical guide shows ambitious non-programmers how to automate and scale the processing and analysis of data in different formats—by using Python.After author Clinton Brownley takes you through Python basics, you’ll be able to write simple scripts for processing data in spreadshee...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a DPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the 2012 R2 release. No prior knowledge about System Center DPM is required, however some experience of running backups will come in handy.What you will learnProtect file shares, volumes, and catalogues and restore file data to its original or alternate locationIntegra...

It's clear that Oracle is the future for enterprise information systems data storageand retrieval – but finding the right reference materials can be difficult. For the firsttime, over 150 Oracle Database Security Interview Questions are here to guide your learning. From helping you to assess your Oracle Security skills to evaluating candidates for a job, Oracle Database Security Interview Questions will help you understand very quickly what you really need to know, and what y...

Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyone’s mind: Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?Big data is emerging from the realm of one-off projects to mainstream business adoption; however, the real value of big data is not in the overwhelming size of it, but more in its ef...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a web developer with experience in AngularJS and want to implement interactive visualizations using D3.js, this book is for you. Knowledge of SVG or D3.js will give you an edge to get the most out of this book.What you will learnDesign, implement, and integrate an interactive dashboard to visualize server logs in real time using D3 graphicsLearn crossplatform vector graphics to implement ...