Название: SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance, 7th Edition
Автор: Grant Fritchey
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2026
Страниц: 750
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 31.3 MB

A new era of SQL Server is here, and this latest edition of Grant Fritchey’s best-selling dive into SQL Server query performance can ensure your queries keep up. The fundamentals are still here: You’ll learn how statistics and indexes impact performance, how to identify poorly performing queries, and how to discover effective solutions. But this new edition also includes advanced features unique to SQL Server 2025, such as AI integration for automatic tuning, insights on using extended events, automatic execution plan correction, and more. It’s a must-have resource designed to empower you to troubleshoot slow-performing queries and make them run faster than ever. The book is a treasure trove of instruction, insight, and advice. For developers and database administrators with responsibility for query performance in SQL Server environments, and anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries and in need of insight into bottlenecks—including how to identify them, understand them, and eliminate them.

Название: The Book of PF, 4th Edition: A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall
Автор: Peter N.M. Hansteen
Издательство: No Starch Press
Год: 2026
Страниц: 264
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 18.3 MB

The OpenBSD packet filter, PF, is central to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD network toolbox. With more services placing high demands on bandwidth and an increasingly hostile Internet environment, no sysadmin can afford to be without PF expertise. The fourth edition of The Book of PF covers the most up-to-date developments in PF, including new content on IPv6, dual stack configurations, the “queues and priorities” traffic-shaping system, NAT and redirection, wireless networking, spam fighting, failover provisioning, logging, and more. You’ll also learn how to: - Create rulesets for all kinds of network traffic, IPv4 and IPv6 both, whether crossing a simple LAN, hiding behind NAT, traversing DMZs, or spanning bridges or wider networks; - Set up wireless networks with access points, and lock them down using authpf and special access restrictions; - Maximize flexibility and service availability via CARP, relayd, and redirection; - Build adaptive firewalls to proactively defend against attackers and spammers. The Book of PF is the essential guide to building a secure network with PF. With a little effort and this book, you’ll be well prepared to unlock PF’s full potential. Covers OpenBSD 7.x, FreeBSD 14.x, and NetBSD 10.x.

Название: New Perspectives Microsoft 365 Access Comprehensive
Автор: Mark Shellman, Sasha Vodnik, Lisa Ruffolo
Издательство: Cengage Learning
Год: 2025
Страниц: 742
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 42.0 MB

Using a unique in-depth, case-based approach, Shellman''s New Perspectives Microsoft 365 Access, Comprehensive, First Edition, thoroughly prepares you for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification exam and success in your future career. As you apply Microsoft Office skills to real-world business scenarios based on data from market insights, you will sharpen your critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Professional skills, tips and insights incorporated throughout provide context and relevancy to real-world practice. The text also offers updated coverage of Microsoft 365 features as well as enhanced support for Mac users. In addition, MindTap and up-to-date SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) digital resources provide interactive study tools to help maximize your study time – and your results.

Название: Mastering Qlik Sense Modern Cloud Analytics: Unlock advanced analytics and visualization power with Qlik Sense Cloud
Автор: Steve Rey, Ashishkumar Kabra
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 576
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 50.1 MB

Qlik Sense is the leading platform for self-service cloud analytics and data discovery, making it essential for any professional in business intelligence (BI) or data engineering. Beginning with core principles, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap to mastering Qlik Sense Cloud, enabling you to architect scalable, governed data applications from scratch. It delivers in-depth coverage of data modelling and advanced data visualization techniques. This book covers Qlik script essentials and demonstrates how to build scalable applications for data processing, leveraging dynamic views and ODAG to deliver adaptive, high-performance solutions. You will also learn how to transform and automate data using Qlik data flows, creating intelligent pipelines that drive AI-ready insights. By the end of this book, you will possess the practical, expert-level skills necessary to develop, secure, and deploy sophisticated Qlik Sense solutions in a modern cloud analytics environment.

Название: iOS Question Bank: Your guide to solving real iOS challenges and cracking iOS interviews with confidence
Автор: Balraj Verma
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 222
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

iOS remains one of the most influential platforms in the mobile ecosystem, boasting over a billion active users worldwide. Apple continues to drive innovation from the rise of Swift as the primary development language to the introduction of cutting-edge frameworks like SwiftUI, Combine, and ARKit etc. As the platform matures, the demand for talented iOS developers grows. Staying updated with the latest technological advancements is no longer optional; it is essential for success in interviews and career growth. This book is structured into three chapters according to experience. This book is a short companion and reference guide meant to help you improve your understanding of Swift, current frameworks, and problem-solving abilities. On completing, you will feel more confident, capable, and prepared to handle your next iOS interview with comfort and clarity. This quick reference guide is perfect for iOS developers, Swift programmers, and mobile tech professionals who want a last-minute refresher before interviews. It covers unexpected questions and key concepts you might not have encountered, helping you walk in prepared and confident.

Название: Android For Beginners - 23rd Edition, 2026
Автор: Papercut Limited
Издательство: Papercut Limited
Год: 2026
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 32.6 MB

Android for Beginners is the first and only choice if you are new adopter and want to learn everything you'll need to get started with your new device. This independent manual is crammed with helpful guides and step-by-step fully illustrated tutorials, written in plain easy to follow English. Over the pages of this new user guide you will clearly learn all you need to know about out of the box set up, getting to grips with the more advanced features and discover a huge array of amazing apps. With this unofficial instruction manual at your side no problem will be unsolvable, no question unanswered as you learn, explore and enhance your user experience.

Название: Microsoft Exam AZ-800: Guide to Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure, First Edition
Автор: Greg Tomsho
Издательство: Cengage Learning
Год: 2024
Страниц: 850
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 30.3 MB

Packed with hands-on activities, Tomsho's Microsoft Exam AZ-800: Guide to Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure, 1st Edition, empowers you to pass the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate Exam AZ-800 while preparing for success as a cloud administrator, server administrator or network engineer. The goal of this text is to help you in providing optimal configuration between on-premises and cloud computing and storage resources, and to reap the maximum benefits of both. After you finish this book, you’ll have an in-depth knowledge of Windows Server, including installation, local and remote management, file and storage services, and Hyper-V virtualization. You’ll also learn how to use a number of Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Directory Services, and Azure storage and networking. The AZ-800 and AZ-801 exams are required for earning the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification.

Название: Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 5th Edition
Автор: Chuck Easttom
Издательство: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Год: 2027
Страниц: 456
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 94.2 MB

Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response, Fifth Edition, delivers a structured, practice-oriented introduction to modern digital investigations. The text integrates forensic procedures, legal considerations, and technical analysis across core and emerging forensic disciplines, helping students understand how investigations unfold from evidence collection through reporting and response. The Fifth Edition introduces a new chapter on memory forensics, expands coverage of cloud computing and IoT investigations, and updates content sequencing to reflect current instructional and professional practice. Scenario-driven labs reinforce concepts through realistic investigative challenges, while expanded depth in key chapters strengthens student readiness for real-world forensic and incident response roles. Well-suited for undergraduate, graduate, and career-training programs, this edition supports rigorous, defensible forensic instruction.

Название: Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making, 8th Edition, Cengage International Edition
Автор: S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston
Издательство: Cengage Learning
Год: 2025
Страниц: 881
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 59.0 MB

Master data analysis, modeling and spreadsheets with Albright/Winston's BUSINESS ANALYTICS: DATA ANALYSIS & DECISION MAKING, CENGAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 8TH EDITION. This analytical approach delivers a proven teach-by-example approach, student-friendly writing and integration with Excel. The data-oriented new edition covers the two main Power BI tools in Excel, Power Query and Power Pivot, and includes sections on implementing these tools in Power BI Desktop. Current problems and cases demonstrate the importance of the concepts you are learning. MindTap, the online learning platform, provides a wealth of helpful study tools such as interactive eBook, Excel assignments and homework, videos and much more.

Название: Technology for Success and Illustrated Series Collection, Microsoft 365 & Office: Concepts & Office Introductory, First Edition
Автор: David W. Beskeen, Jennifer T. Campbell, Mark Ciampa, Carol M. Cram, Lynn Wermers, Rob Wilson
Издательство: Cengage Learning
Год: 2025
Страниц: 642
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 44.8 MB

Including the latest Microsoft 365 features and enhanced support for Mac users, Beskeen/Campbell/Cram/Wermers/Wilson's Technology for Success and Illustrated Series Collection, Microsoft 365 & Office, 1st Edition, helps you master the nuances of Microsoft Office. A concise, student-friendly two-page layout allows you to work through an entire task without turning the page. Modules begin with an overview of principles in the lesson while large, full-color images illustrate what you see on your computer. Module Learning Objectives are mapped to Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification objectives, and module scenarios are based on Burning Glass market insights data, helping you sharpen the critical skills you need for real-world success. In addition, MindTap and SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) online resources help maximize your study time and results.