CSS Cookbook

This book is for web designers and developers struggling with the problems of designing with CSS. With this book, web builders can solve common problems associated with CSS-enabled web page designs.

This book is good for people who have wanted to use CSS for web projects, but have shied away from learning a new technology. If you are this type of reader, use the solutions in the book one or a few at a time. Use it as a guidebook and come back to it when you are ready or need to learn another technique or trick.

If you consider yourself an expert with CSS but not an expert in basic design knowledge, this book is useful to have by the side of your computer.
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Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005

This book is mainly intended to be a systematic guide to learning SQL using SQL Server 2005--a relational and multiuser database. The book is aimed at students who wish to learn SQL using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. The book is expected to be used by schools and SQL training organizations as well as by database and IT professionals who are actively working with SQL Server 2005.

The book starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. The purpose of this book is to present every topic, concept, and idea with examples of code and output. Exercises have also been included to gain SQL proficiency using SQL Server. The best approach to using this book efficiently is to read through the book with SQL Server open and active. As the book is read, it will be advantageous for you to work with and understand the examples.

If the book is used for a beginning database course, the exercises are presented to be done by the students over the course of one semester at a pace of one chapter per week. The exercises are found at the end of each chapter.

Due to the dramatic increase in the popularity of relational and multiuser databases, many schools and training organizations are using SQL Server in their database courses to teach database principles and concepts. This development has generated a need for a concise book on SQL Server programming, tied in with database principles and conceptshence this book.
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