For the current edition of this book, please see Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (ISBN 9781890774516).

If you want to learn SQL, you’ve picked the right book. Unlike most SQL books, this one starts by showing you how to use SQL queries to extract and update the data in a database, because that’s what every application developer needs to know first. Then, it shows how to design and implement a database, how to use server-side features like views, stored procedures, cursors, and transactions, and how to use the CLR integration feature (new in SQL Server 2005) to create database objects in a .NET language like C# or Visual Basic.

With this breadth of material, this book works well for application developers and SQL programmers, but it’s also a great first book for DBAs-in-training.
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For the current edition of this book, please see Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (ISBN 9781890774486).

Are you trying to decide which ASP.NET 2.0 book to buy?As its title implies, this book teaches you how to develop web applications using ASP.NET 2.0. That means it teaches all the features that are new in ASP.NET 2.0, including master pages, database access using both SQL and object data sources, the new code-behind model, site navigation features, authentication using the Web Site Administration tool and login controls, profiles, themes, and web parts.
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Become a CodeIgniter expert with professional tools, techniques and extended libraries

• Learn expert CodeIgniter techniques and move beyond the realms of the User Guide
• Create mini-applications that teach you a technique and allow you to easily build extras on top of them
• Create CodeIgniter Libraries to minimize code bloat and allow for easy transitions across multiple projects
• Utilize third-party APIs (Twitter oAuth and Facebook Connect) and make use of some less-known helper functions – CodeIgniter’s hidden gems
• A step-by-step, practical guide with examples and screenshots

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An essential update to the key web authoring standards of HTML, XHTML, and CSSThe existence of Web pages depends on three vital technologies: HTML (base language that Web pages are written in), XHTML (standards that define how to write HTML pages), and CSS (standard that applies formatting styles to Web pages). This new edition provides you with critical coverage of these three Web authoring standards, and places special focus on the upcoming releases of HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Serving as a tutorial and reference, this comprehensive resource explains the basic structure and necessary formatting to create a static (non-changing) and dynamic (changing) page on the Internet.
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that helps web developers create JavaScript applications that work well in any browser. This book demonstrates how to use jQuery to reduce the amount of code you need to write and reduce the amount of testing that is required. You?ll see how separation of presentation (CSS), markup (XHTML), and script (JavaScript and Ajax) in web pages is a crucial direction in web development for creating maintainable, accessible, cost-effective web sites. The featured full-color code syntax highlighting provides you with a visual reinforcement so you can see the various pieces and parts that make up each line and section of code for each language.