Look at your database like never before!
Ever wondered what are the differences among commercially available databases in the world? Each vendor’s brochure claims their product is the best.... More > But is it best for your requirement?
This book tries to explain how all popular databases differ in their architecture and internal operations. It includes Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase ASE/IQ, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Netezza, Teradata, Access and much more! It highlights features available on most common databases, boundary where they start to perform poorly, cost of procurement and maintenance etc. Also covers benchmark testing, row vs column oriented databases, enterprise database requirements, capacity planning, migration strategy, future trends and ETL tools in brief.
After reading this book, you should be able to take wiser decision on selecting databases appropriate for your project.
This book was originally published in Calcutta Book Fair in 2010.< Less
The late-nineteenth century Polish cotton carrier, Slobodna, was one of the last sailing ships in a critical period of international trade. On her last voyage Slobodna was hauling a full load of... More > cotton from New Orleans to the industrial mills of Northern Europe. Wrecked on the outer edge of the Florida Keys the shipwreck Slobodna today delights scuba divers with the remains of the once mighty ship. This monograph looks at the site formation process and comparative historic artifact collections in an effort to better understand the shipwreck site and ship's role in history.< Less
The late-nineteenth century Polish cotton carrier, Slobodna, was one of the last sailing ships in a critical period of international trade. On her last voyage Slobodna was hauling a full load of... More > cotton from New Orleans to the industrial mills of Northern Europe. Wrecked on the outer edge of the Florida Keys the shipwreck Slobodna today delights scuba divers with the remains of the once mighty ship. This monograph looks at the site formation process and comparative historic artifact collections in an effort to better understand the shipwreck site and ship's role in history.< Less
The late-nineteenth century Polish cotton carrier, Slobodna, was one of the last sailing ships in a critical period of international trade. On her last voyage Slobodna was hauling a full load of... More > cotton from New Orleans to the industrial mills of Northern Europe. Wrecked on the outer edge of the Florida Keys the shipwreck Slobodna today delights scuba divers with the remains of the once mighty ship. This monograph looks at the site formation process and comparative historic artifact collections in an effort to better understand the shipwreck site and ship's role in history.< Less
'Trade, Gift-giving and Romanitas' is a short but detailed study of the way in which elites outside of the Roman Empire used and imported Roman luxury items, focussing on Southern Scandinavia and... More > Western Britain as case studies.
It can be argued that these items were being used in the same manner in both regions, with local elites consciously trying to appear Roman in order to secure and legitimise their rule. Furthermore the distribution of these artefacts can tell us a significant amount about the internal structures of these 'barbarian' polities, their economic sophistication, and the role played by gift-giving in both societies.< Less
Law and society treats law and the legal process viewed from both a societal and the individual's point of view, from the perspective of a small European country, Sweden. The material has a strong... More > sense of reality with the knowledge necessary to understand the legal system. The book includes six chapters dealing separately with different parts of the legal system. The last chapter treats European and international common law.
The book is written from the perspective of a country, Sweden, with a long tradition of democracy and human rights and with a comparison to a country in the former Soviet Union, Belarus. It can be used as a textbook and a manual for how a functional legal system can be designed.< Less
These are the Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the ACL2
Theorem Prover and its Applications. The ACL2 workshops provide the
major technical forum for researchers to present and... More > discuss
improvements and extensions to the theorem prover, comparisons of ACL2
with other systems, and applications of ACL2 in industry, government,
and academia.< Less
These are the Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the ACL2
Theorem Prover and its Applications. The ACL2 workshops provide the
major technical forum for researchers to present and... More > discuss
improvements and extensions to the theorem prover, comparisons of ACL2
with other systems, and applications of ACL2 in industry, government,
and academia.< Less
Level 2 Clinical Case Collection: Internal Medicine & Surgery is a challenging and thought-provoking collection of cases designed to augment one's learning and study experiences in preparation... More > for Level 2 COMLEX and Step 2 USMLE. The entire collection provides focused cases on a wide variety of Internal Medicine and Surgery topics, fields critical to boards success. Furthermore, the cases are created to ensure coverage of those concepts vital to boards success as well as comprehensive comparison and contrast between answers commonly confused with one another. The answer explanations are extremely thorough, providing textbook-level explanations for all answer options. Contained herein are 102 of the most learning-intensive questions, accompanied by 68 pages of detailed, understandable explanations created to bring you to a thorough comprehension of the topic under scrutiny.< Less
Papers in this issue:(1) Jesús García Laborda & Miguel Fernández Álvarez: Teachers' opinions towards the integration of oral tasks in the Spanish University... More > Examination; (2)Oksana Laleko:Restructuring of verbal aspect in Heritage Russian: Beyond lexicalization; (3) Yu-Cheng Lee:Comparison of politeness and acceptability perceptions of request strategies between Chinese learners of English and native English speakers; (4) Kunal Kamal Kumar: Development and application of an instrument to find out the linguistic background of employees in MNCs; (5) Amelia Maria Cava: Abstracting science: A corpus-based approach to research article abstracts; (6) Reima Al-Jarf: Helping medical students with online videos; (7) Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan & Nafiseh Khakbaz: Theses ‘Discussion’ sections: A structural move analysis; (8) Hossein Karami & Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan: Differential Item Functioning (DIF): Current problems and future directions; (9) Forough Rahimi: Book Review< Less
