This illustrated history of the California coastal navy will intrigue any with a special affection for either Southern California or the Navy: San Diego's Navy provides over a hundred fifty years of maritime history and traces a relationship between the city and the navy which began during the opening days of the Mexican War and continues to modern times. Anticipate many black and white photos, a centerfold of color photos, and much detail on San Diego.

If you are a California history fan or a Naval history fan - or both - this is an innovative, colorful treatise on the Navy in San Diego. Bruce Linder clearly knows his stuff, and this book shows his inimitable style.

Definitely not a 'coffee table book', and well worth the read, I recommend it highly. :)

This book is THE complete guide to building an intranet. Killer examples and techniques.

Very impressive compendium of Intranet information and the latest HTML techniques

I first saw this book at my mother-in-law's house and just loved it. I grew up in San Diego and it was fascinating to see the before and after photographs of places where I grew up. The book is full of great photographs and interesting historical text to go with it.

This book is for everyone. Not only psychology majors, but even anyone who is interested in the field of psychology will find the information in this book very useful. From writing a psychology thesis to career choices a psychology major has, this book has everything you ever wanted to know about psychology. But wait, thats not where it ends, this book is so easy to read even someone with English as a Second Language, this book would be helpful, since it uses easy english. So if you are interested in Psychology do not go for something else, this is the book for you.

Dr. Seuss & Mr Geisel was interesting, to say the least. Don't see the name Seuss and automatically think it's a children's book. Overall, I though it was a mediocre biography about an amazing, stupendous genius. No bio could do Mr. Geisel honor, but this one does suprisingly well.

The writers, who were great friends, tapped into the spirit of a man who was clearly ahead of his time and kooky enough to press on despite harsh criticism. It is important to note that in this book, you see Ted Geisel as he was; an artist and human being. What made him superhuman was his compassion for people and his passion to entertain. His ingenious vision and humility surpass the petty details others may find missing. If you're open to the miracle of the work itself, you will find out that the technicalities of writing children's books or networking were not the things that made him Dr. Seuss. If one is interested in knowing what makes a great human being, reading this biography will fulfill a big piece of that quest and touch your heart.

This is really a great book, if i could rate it from one to five, i'd rate it 5,000,000,000,000,00.. well you get the main idea

I must disagree with the other reviewers. This book was recommended for a undergrad course on DBMS at UC Berkeley. The chapter on relational algebra had lots of good examples, but the book went down hill from there. The SQL examples and problems were trivial and shallow compared to the relational algebra ones. The ESQL section was pretty good, but vendors' on-line reference material made it redundant. While an overview of DBMS implementation was given, it was almost completely useless when we had to write our own DBMS from scratch. The only highlight in this section is a pretty clear example of insertions into a B+ Tree (even though the book calls it a B tree ). All in all I cannot recommend this book.

I took an undergraduate course using this book. I have read other MK published book before and I believe the general principle for these people is... explain simple concepts using the most possible words. The book seemed padded with useless words to explain simple concepts. I had class notes to accompany the lectures and a page worth of material from the lecture notes explained much more than 30 pages from this book.

However, this book does skim through various database implementation (DB2, Oracle, Ingres) and displays the differences between them.

I have found this book to be impractical for reference, it is definitely a 'textbook'. If you're looking for practical SQL usage, you might want to look else where. However, if you're interested in Concepts of Database Programming and Performance Topics then this book might fulfill your needs.

I used the first edition for a database course, and I borrowed the new edition to read a week ago (I just ordered the book today).

I wish PBS would make their hardware shows more like this book. I like to watch them, but one thing bugs me: they show how you drive a screw every 4 ins to retain *this particular* panel, but they don't explain *why* that was necessary. So you don't know how to design the panel yourself, or how to figure out if the panel needs redesigning. This book is full of practical insights that help you analyze and tune a database, not just churn through SQL syntax.

I think this book works best as a complement to your vendor's documentation. It takes you all the way from fundamentals to evaluating transactional benchmarks. The exercises at the end of each chapter teach you not just how to, say, add an index, but also how to evaluate the need for an index and the performance of existing indexes.

(I'd suggest skipping the section on relational algebra unless you're approaching databases from a mathematical background.)

The book contrasts the various database products when necessary, eg in the new object-relational section.

If your database is suddenly running half as fast, or you told the customer the new hardware would speed up response and it didn't, this is the book you need. Better yet, buy it first.