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The Icarus Deception

yumsale — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:54 +0000

Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldn’t want employees to believe that obedience [...]

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

yumsale — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:24:59 +0000

Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more. Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of [...]

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Database Development

yumsale — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:55:46 +0000

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-433—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help [...]

The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset

yumsale — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:56:14 +0000

In this book, leading data warehouse experts from the Kimball Group share best practices for using the upcoming “Business Intelligence release” of SQL Server, referred to as SQL Server 2008 R2. In this new edition, the authors explain how SQL Server 2008 R2 provides a collection of powerful new tools that extend the power of its [...]

UML Distilled

yumsale — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:50:25 +0000

Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big language, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of UML Distilled was [...]

Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties

yumsale — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:55:19 +0000

In the SQL database community, Joe Celko is a well-known columnist and purveyor of valuable insights. In Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming, he picks up where basic SQL training and experience leaves many database professionals and offers tips, techniques, and explanations that help readers extend their capabilities to top-tier SQL programming. Although [...]

UML For The IT Business Analyst

yumsale — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:52:19 +0000

Today, information-technology business analysts are often working on object-oriented (OO), Unified Modeling Language (UML) projects, yet they have a long way to go to exploit the technology beyond the adoption of use cases (just one part of the UML). This book explains how, as an IT business analyst, you can pull together all of the [...]

Book review: A Whole New Mind

yumsale — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:23:26 +0000

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional [...]

Basic Design Principles

yumsale — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:27:00 +0000

The four basic design principles: Contrast I two items are not exactly the same, then make them different. Really different. Our eyes like contrast. Creating contrast is just fun. Add contrast through your typeface choices, line thicknesses, colors, shapes, sizes, space, etc. Don’t be a wimp. Repetition Repeat some aspect of the design throughout the [...]

Social Intelligence

yumsale — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:53:30 +0000

Social Intelligence (SI) is the ability to get along well with others, and to get them to cooperate with you. Sometimes referred to simplistically as “people skills,” SI includes an awareness of situations and the social dynamics that govern them, and a knowledge of interaction styles and strategies that can help a person achieve his [...]