Enterprise Application Integration

Combining reference material for over 20 popular technologies, this text ranges from Active Server Pages (ASP) to Java to Visual Basic. It is designed as a comprehensive reference for professional programmers and IT managers, and was written because IT products do not work in isolation any more, companies run more than one operating system, and they have databases from more than one vendor. With new challenges arising every day, the answers need to be readily available. For example, a developer needs to know if there is a switch statement in C++ one day, and then whether or not Perl is case-sensitive the next. Or, an IT manager needs to talk intelligently about technology he was sharp on 2 years ago. Maybe, the project manager gets the call when a batch file errors out on Sunday morning and he didn't write the batch file. This is what Millar's book is for. It contains reference material about the predominant programming languages, operating systems and databases. The programming languages section contains quick facts and syntax rules, an overall language review and code examples.
Included are chapters about high level programming, such as VBScript and HTML, as well as core languages such as Java and C++. The operating systems section gives general descriptions, defines commands used to perform administration and user tasks, and reviews OS programming techniques, such as shell or batch programming. The database section covers the most widely-used databases of today, with a review of overall DB organization, DB administration, DB client access tips and techniques, and SQL programming rules and examples. Powerful production databases, such as Oracle and PL/SQL programming are also covered, as well as Access and SQL Server with its TSQL