The 2016 edition of this Murach Classic SQL Server book starts by presenting  the SQL statements that you need to retrieve and update the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you’ll use every day. Then, it shows you how to design a database, how to implement that design, and how to work with database features like views, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, transactions, security, XML data, BLOB data with FILESTREAM storage, and the CLR integration feature.

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Developers, designers, engineers, and creators can no longer afford to pass responsibility for identity and data security onto others. Jonathan LeBlanc and Tim Messerschmidt provide a deep dive into the concepts, technology, and programming methodologies necessary to build a secure interface for data and identity without compromising usability.

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Spreadsheets take the hard work out of financial calculations, but you still need to know how to do them. In this revised published version of her I Programmer e-book, Janet Swift explains how to use the spreadsheet of your choice to make financial decisions relating to investments and loans, to understand how inflation affects a cashflow and to get to grips with advanced concepts like the internal rate of return.

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Complete coverage of the latest updates, features, and capabilities, giving you everything you need for C#. Get expert instruction on the latest changes to Visual Studio 2015, Windows Runtime, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Store Apps, Windows Workflow Foundation, and more, with clear explanations, no-nonsense pacing, and valuable expert insight. This guide serves as both tutorial and desk reference, providing a professional-level review of C# architecture and its application in a number of areas. 

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Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the tedious repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. Sass simplifies your stylesheets, adding some useful features missing from CSS. Most importantly, Sass will save you time.

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Frank Luna provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12 showing how to use new Direct12 features such as command lists, pipeline state objects, descriptor heaps and tables, and explicit resource management to reduce CPU overhead and increase scalability across multiple CPU cores. 

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Get hands-on experience with Apple’s Swift programming language by building real working apps. With this practical guide, skilled programmers with little or no knowledge of Apple development will learn how to code with Swift 2 by developing three complete, tightly linked versions of the Notes application for the OS X, iOS, and watchOS platforms. 

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Beginner-friendly collection of 25 step-by-step projects anyone can build with the Arduino. Clear instructions, full-color images, simple circuit diagrams, and the complete code make it easy for even the newest maker to build fun projects right away. Author Mark Geddes, a lifelong tinkerer and gadget enthusiast, originally wrote this book to teach his kid the joys of electronics and microcontrollers without having to wade through a hundred pages of theory first.

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Articles on how drones are being used to perform rescue work, the latest in aerial robotics, and tips on becoming an expert flier. You'll also learn how to hack and infrared lamp to become a night flier, build your own low-cost quadcopter, and knock drones out of the sky with a Raspberry Pi-powered drone jammer. This issue also features expert drone ratings and recommendations. 

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Cay Horstmann's two-volume Core Java has a long pedigree as a no-nonsense tutorial and reference for experienced programmers who want to write robust Java code for real-world applications. This tenth edition of Volume I - Fundamentals, has been rewritten and reorganized to illuminate new Java SE 8 features, idioms, and best practices. It contains hundreds of example programs all carefully crafted for easy understanding and practical applicability.

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Helps you learn all the R skills you need to solve a wide spectrum of real-world data analysis problems in just 24 lessons of one hour or less. The straightforward, step-by-step approach teaches you how to import, manipulate, summarize, model, and plot data with R; formalize your analytical code; and build powerful R packages using current best practices. You’ll master the entire data analysis workflow, learning to build code that’s efficient, reproducible, and suitable for sharing with others.  

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As part of the Pocket Primer series, this short book was designed for someone who needs to master Access programming fundamentals without spending too much time. It will show you only the things you need to know to feel at home with VBA. What you learn in this book on Access programming will also apply to Excel programming. 

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