SQL Server 2005 Reporting Essentials shows you how to use Report Builder, a tool that lets information workers build ad hoc reports, and how to use Report Designer, a report development tool hosted in Visual Studio that lets you interactively create reports. This book shows you how to publish, manage, and run those reports.

This book concludes by showing the three mechanisms used by developers to integrate reports into applications: form controls, parameterized URLs, and web services.

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The first in a two-book series about Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting introduces reporting to a broad base of users. Built on the Eclipse platform, this exciting technology makes it possible for programmers and non-programmers to build and deploy complex reports with minimal effort.

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Microsoft Office 2007 is a major upgrade from the last version of Office; Access will also be greatly revised. Alison Balter is the name that Access developers will trust to guide them through Access 2007’s new features. She has the rare ability to take complex topics and explain them clearly, as shown by the success of her ten previous books on Access. Balter is known for providing real-world solutions to specific Access development problems. She also is known for her ability to back up her practical examples with just enough underlying theory to give the reader a good overall understanding of Access. In short, this book will provide beginning and intermediate Access developers with everything that they need to know to design and build Access 2007 applications. It should also appeal to DBAs and power users who want or need to get started building custom Access apps. This latest book in her Mastering Access series will not disappoint her many fans who anxiously await each new version, and should win her new fans as well.

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As a practical guide for Integration Services ETL development, Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services shows you ways to implement your ETL solution requirements from the data to the administration and everything in-between. Each chapter begins with a review of pertinent ETL concepts and moves into working those out into a design with multiple examples and related Integration Services features with the end goal of putting it all together to get a solution.

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Access 2007 All in One Desk Reference provides new and inexperienced Access users with nine task-oriented minibooks that cover beginning to advanced-level material.
Each minibook covers a specific aspect of Access, such as database design, tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros.
Shows how to accomplish specific tasks such as database housekeeping, security data, and using Access with the Web.
Access is the world’s leading desktop database solution and is used by millions of people to store, organize, view, analyze, and share data, as well as to build powerful, custom database solutions that integrate with the Web and enterprise data sources.

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Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 captures some of the freshest thinking from widely known and respected relational database pioneer C. J. Date. Known for his tenacious defense of relational theory in its purest form, Date tackles many topics that are important to database professionals, including the difference between model and implementation, data integrity, data redundancy, deviations in SQL from the relational model, and much more.

Date clearly and patiently explains where many of today’s products and practices go wrong, and illustrates some of the trouble you can get into if you don’t carefully think through your use of current database technology. In almost every field of endeavor, the writings of the founders and early leaders have had a profound effect. And now is your chance to read Date—while his material is fresh and the field is still young. You’ll want to read this book because it

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Written by a team of Oracle insiders, Oracle Data Warehousing - With Business Intelligence Solutions provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools. You’ll learn how to leverage Oracle features and how those features can be used to provide solutions to a variety of needs and demands. Plus, you’ll get valuable tips and insight based on the authors’ real-world experiences and their own implementations.

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Professional SQL Server 2005 Programming shows experienced developers how to master the substantially revamped feature set of the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server. The book begins with a concise overview of the new features of SQL Server that is of interest to experienced developers. This is especially important given the substantial changes to SQL Server with this release. From there, the book quickly moves on to the ¡°meat¡± of the title. Beginning-level material has been removed to provide more room for covering new features and more extensive code examples.

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Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Access 2007 from the inside out!. Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Access 2007all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, youll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Access 2007 experience to the next level. This information-packed complete reference shows you how to get the most out of Access 2007 and find out whats new. You will learn how to design more-efficient databases, streamline data entry, find the information you need, and work with tools to produce effective forms, reports, and queries. In addition, youll begin to explore strategies for database design and advanced table design.

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Dimensional Data Warehousing with MySQL - A Tutorial is about data warehousing design and development techniques implemented in MySQL. It covers most commonly used techniques in the phases of building a data warehouse. More important, this book provides an easy to follow tutorial for developing a real world data warehouse. It uses an example data warehouse development to show the implementation of the techniques. The data model and the SQL scripts are included and can be adapted to be used in real-world data warehouse development.

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While Oracle continues to improve the security features of its product, it still has a long way to go. David Litchfield has devoted years to relentlessly searching out the flaws in this ubiquitous database system and creating defenses against them. Now he offers you his complete arsenal to assess and defend your own Oracle systems.

Like The Shellcoder’s Handbook and The Database Hacker’s Handbook, this in-depth guide explores every technique and tool used by black hat hackers to invade and compromise Oracle. It shows you how to find the weak spots and defend them. Without that knowledge, you have little chance of keeping your databases truly secure.

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Pro SQL Server 2005 Replication is for Microsoft database developers and administrators who want to learn about the different types of replication and those best suited to SQL Server 2005. The book will also delve into advanced topics like replication of SQL Server with heterogeneous databases, replication of different database objects like stored procedures, backup and recovery of replicated databases, plus performance and tuning. This book is an ideal read whether you’re a novice or advanced replication user.

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Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you’ll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language.

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Use this comprehensive tutorial and reference to increase productivity and write stored procedures using the language with which you’re most familiar. The revised content covers new features such as XML integration, Web services, the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and security updates, making this book a must for any developer or database administrator transitioning to the new version of SQL Server. You’ll learn to develop SQL Server database and data connections, administer SQL Server, and keep databases performing at their peak. In addition, you’ll find dozens of specific examples in both a graphical format and as SQL code as well as numerous best practices describing the most effective way to accomplish a given task. A companion Web site provides all of the code examples found in the book.

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After reading this book, you will be able to build, deploy and maintain a “homebrew” Wi-Fi network. And if you just want some geek fun, Wireless Hacking won’t disappoint. You will be challenged! Written by members of the pioneering SoCalFreeNet Wireless Users Group, Wireless Hacking delivers a series of interrelated projects, with full integration of both hardware and software hacks. Some of the wireless hacks in this book include:

• Use existing Ethernet cables to provide low-voltage power to Access Points with no additional source of electricity.
• Install Linux and FreeBSD on low-cost (under $150) Soekris single-board computers.
• Modify the firmware of your Linksys WRT54g.
• Construct Solar Powered Access Points and Repeaters for your Wi-Fi network.
• WarDrive for wireless access points with tools like Kismet and NetStumbler.
• Install an antenna without killing yourself or changing the earth’s orbit.
• Expand your Wi-Fi network beyond one box and 50 users with MESH network topology.

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In Hacking a Terror Network, Russ Rogers uses a fictional scenario to demonstrate how terrorists may use the Internet to coordinate and launch a new series of terrorist attacks. While the scenario may be fictitious, the techniques and technologies that Russ uses are drawn straight from the computer security world. It makes for a great read as well as provides a blueprint to the workings of covert channels. Most importantly, it describes how law enforcement agencies and intelligence organizations can detect, defend and destroy threats. This book is packed with real-life examples of how tools work, including screenshots and narrative tutorials. Both amateurs and seasoned security professionals will benefit from reading this book. –from the Foreword by Matthew G. Devost, President and CEO, Terrorism Research Center, Inc.

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Special Appendix from Juniper Networks Covering New Features in ScreenOS 5.1.0
Configuring NetScreen Firewalls covers all of the aspects of Juniper’s NetScreen product line, from SOHO devices to Enterprise NetScreen firewalls. Coverage includes basic policy creation and administration, advanced troubleshooting techniques, the NetScreen Security Manager and VPN configuration. In addition, this book covers both the WebUI and the command line interface of NetScreen ScreenOS 5.0. as well as the NetScreen Security Manager (NSM). As a special bonus, Juniper Networks provides detailed coverage of the new features and enhancements included with ScreenOS 5.1.
Select NetScreen Management OptionsDecide whether the WebUI or the Command Line Interface (CMI) is right for your enterprise.

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AD HOC NETWORKS: Protocols and Technologies will be immensely useful as a reference work to engineers and researchers as well as to advanced level students in the areas of wireless networks, and computer networks.

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Wireless Optical Communication Systems is organized for professional and academic readers engaged in modem design for wireless optical intensity channels. Significant background material is presented on both the properties as well as on fundamental communications principles. Wireless Optical Communication Systems can be used by physicists and experimentalists as an introduction to signalling design as well as communication systems designers.

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Resource Management in Wireless Networking provides readers with a deep technical overview of recent advances in resource management for wireless networks at different layers of the protocol stack. The subject is explored in various wireless networks, such as ad hoc wireless networks, 3G/4G cellular, IEEE 802.11, and Bluetooth personal area networks. Survey chapters give an excellent introduction to key topics in resource management for wireless networks, while experts will be satisfied by the technical depth of the knowledge imparted in chapters exploring hot research topics. The subject area discussed in this book is very relevant today, considering the recent remarkable growth of wireless networking and the convergence of wireless personal communications, internet technologies and real-time multimedia. This volume is a very good companion for practitioners working on implementing solutions for multimedia and Quality of Service ¨C sensitive applications over wireless networks.

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