books: data quality ...     books:       Six Sigma Statistics with EXCEL and MINITAB6 reviews Issa Bass McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007 Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab by Issa Bass Excellent book on using Minitab and Excel to assist in Six Sigma analysis with supporting statistical methods             Building Professional Services: The Sirens' Song9 reviews Thomas E. Lah, Steve O'Connor, ... Prentice Hall PTR, 2002 Excellent pragmatic approach This book as become my day-to-day bible to managing a professional service division within our product-oriented company. If you have your objectives and strategy clear, this book will help you getting organized with the tactics.             Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management17 reviews Bastin Gerald, Nigel King, ... McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001 Excellent Oracle reference tool I was part of the Oracle implementation team at our company, and I have found this book to be a useful tool for myself in the year since implementation as we continue to explore new functionalities. It is also a useful tool for the application users to learn how Oracle works. In fact, I not only purchased this book for myself, but I have purchased copies for several other people in the company. ...             Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning)29 reviews Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, ... Microsoft Press, 2006 An excellent contribution to the "Inside-SQL" series This is the 2nd book of the 4 part "Inside-SQL" series, with each book I imagine, appealing to a different reader. Having a programming background, I enjoyed this book more than the first in the series ("The Storage Engine"), which on it's own is also an excellent book. As mentioned in other reviews, this book is definitely not for beginners. The authors assumes a basic level of SQL knowledge ...             VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center2 reviews David Marshall, Stephen S. Beaver, ... Auerbach Publications, 2008 Long Awaited VMWARE Bible This is the defacto standard book on how to use VMWARE. I have been waiting for a book like this for a long, long time. It's novice enough for noobs, but technical enough for the most seasoned VMWARE pro's. Highly recommended for anyone in a VMWARE shop.             MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-431, 70-443, 70-444): Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Database ...24 reviews Microsoft Press, 2006 A well written exam guide, and a good reference as well I'm just about finished my MCITP: DBA Certification on SQL 2005. So far I've done 70-431, and 70-443. I've been working with SQL Server for a number of years now, and I've recently switched over to a full time DBA position. I read this book in about 2 weeks, and did the exam on the third week. I managed to get 910 on the exam, out of 1000. As 700 is the passing grade, I'm more than satisfied ...             MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Implementation and Maintenance ...40 reviews Solid Quality Learning Microsoft Press, 2006 As Advertised This is exactly what you need to study for this test. As it is published by Microsoft, it give you the ability to "think" like Microsoft which is what is needed when taking the test for the MCTS certification in SQL. The test on the CD gives you a chance to find out how much you know and also prepares you for the demanding cert exam.             Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Database Essentials Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))9 reviews Solid Quality Learning Microsoft Press, 2006 Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Database Essentials Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) A very good material for beginers. I would have like to found this material when I first took a DB class...             Inside Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: The Storage Engine (Solid Quality Learning)15 reviews Kalen Delaney Microsoft Press, 2006 A valuable addition to the 'Inside SQL' series I've been following this series since the days of Ron Soukup, and Delaney once again does not fail to deliver and impress in this latest edition. This book is part of a four part volume set (the 4th still awaiting publication at the time of this review), which previous to this release was contained in one volume. This shows how much more information is being published on SQL Server 2005, and ...             Data Quality Assessment5 reviews Maydanchik Arkady Technics Publications, LLC, 2007 Hua! It's about time. My business, Northwest Database Services, has cleaned clients' data for over 20 years. In all that time I've only met two or three people who do this kind of work professionally on a regular basis. (Our conventions are small.) With this in mind, it is easy to see why I was so pleased and surprised to find someone had written a book about the subject; especially as thoughtful and insightful a ...             Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation8 reviews Robert Burgelman, Clayton Christensen, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008 Just what I needed Just what I needed for my class and it was a lot cheaper buying through you.             3G Wireless Networks, Second Edition6 reviews Clint Smith McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2006 An Excellent Choice for the Professional I really liked this book. I thought the diagrams were well displayed. I learned so much from reading this book. Experience in the networking field will help you understand 3G networks. This book has a lot of terminology. This book has a lot of usefull diagrams. Also this book has a lot of pictures. A picture is worth a 1000 words. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn ...             Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits17 reviews Larry P. English Wiley, 1999 The bible of IQ To me it is the bible of information quality. Larry explains information quality in all its aspects and everybody who descide to step into this area should not read but study this book. This is a very good pylon on your journey with information quality. I strongly recomend this book to others having deep interest in this area and open to understand that information quality is not a data ...             How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services. Book & CD11 reviews Mike Andrews, James A. Whittaker Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 Very informative. If you develop web software it's a must-read I recently finished reading How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services by Mike Andrews and James A. Whittaker. I, like many of you, develop web software for a living. I've always taken security seriously and occasionally sneered when I ran across examples of common mistakes. Having said that, this book was an eye opener for me. The book ...             Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information (TM)6 reviews Danette McGilvray Morgan Kaufmann, 2008 Excellent book for Data Quality professionals I have read everything Tom Redman and Larry English have written. Their work has been very instructive and has helped me a great deal in my work. In fact, I used their work, as well as that of luminaries like Jack Olsen, to gain approval for an enterprise-wide information quality management program at a Fortune 500 bio-pharmaceutical company. I am now responsible for executing this program and ...             Oracle DBA Pocket Guide (Pocket Reference)4 reviews David Kreines O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 All your common Oracle tasks in one place This pocket guide is great for quickly looking up syntax and usage of all the common Oracle DBA commands. If you are a seasoned Oracle DBA and you have it all memorized it might be of limited help, but if your like me where you are primarily a software developer then it's great. It covers everything from installation to backup and recovery. This is not a book to learn Oracle from, but for a ...             Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems (HP Professional Series)11 reviews Melissa Cook, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books Prentice Hall PTR, 1996 Business-Focused and pragmatic - highly recommended Ms. Cook takes a no-nonsense approach to building an enterprise architecture that puts business requirements first. She starts this excellent book with a quick history, setting information architecture into a context. This is followed by addressing the hard part of architecture: overcoming political resistance and tackling the thorny problems of aligning systems to what the business needs. She ...             The Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Simplified Approach to Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Workplace ...5 reviews Max Ammerman Productivity Press, 1998 Unique approach to a traditionally reactive technique My background is information systems service delivery. I stumbled across this gem when I was searching for resources on how to structure outage investigations for applications that did not meet service level objectives. Prior to reading this book I viewed root cause analysis as a reactive tool to be used to investigate the causes of failures. The approach taken by the author is to also use this ...             Spend Analysis: The window into strategic sourcing5 reviews Kirit Pandit, H. Marmanis J. Ross Publishing, 2008 Best business book of the year Spend Analysis is a superior book on the subject of Strategic Sourcing. If your interest is to find massive cost savings for your business then this book is for you. The authors detail every aspect of spend analysis in an intelligent and myriad display of awareness on the subject. Mr. Pandit and Dr. Marmanis are clearly leaders in this field. A rare opportunity exists to absorb their knowledge ...             Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning4 reviews George W. Plossl McGraw-Hill, 1994 An excellent introduction to MRP. I am the system administator at my company. Out of frustration at many problems we have been having with the MRP module of our integrated system, I looked for a good source of knowledge about how MRP *should* work. In Orlicky's MRP I found that source. Orlicky's MRP is probably one of the best written books on the subject that I've seen. I had no trouble at all understanding the complex ...              search for books administrator, applications, architectures, assessment, certification, correcting, e-business, enterprise, essentials, executing, functional, identifying, implementation, increasing, information, innovation, maintenance, management, manufacturing, microsoft, pro-certification, professional, reengineering, reporting, requirements, self-paced, simplified, statistics, technology, workplace books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian ... we recommend Excellent pragmatic approach leave a comment home  impressum - about us