Sample chapters
Software Development in Windows
- May 15, 2012
- This chapter from Inside Windows Debugging introduces some common terminology as well as several important layers (Kernel, Executive, NTDLL, Win32, COM/.NET) in the Windows architecture and software development landscape.
- By Itzik Ben-GanNov 4, 2019
In this sample chapter from T-SQL Window Functions: For data analysis and beyond, 2nd Edition, author Itzik Ben-Gan provides extensive coverage of window functions, their optimization, and querying solutions implementing them. This chapter starts by explaining the concept, and it provides a background of window functions, a glimpse of solutions using windows functions, coverage of the elements involved in window specifications, an account of the query elements supporting window functions, and a description of the standard’s solution for reusing window definitions.
- Apr 15, 2012
- This chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions provides the background of window functions, a glimpse of solutions using them, coverage of the elements involved in window specifications, an account of the query elements supporting window functions, and a description of the standard’s solution for reusing window definitions.
- By Cindy M. LewisMar 15, 2022
A project’s schedule or plan is essentially a model that you construct for some project aspects that you’re anticipating—what you expect will happen or what you want to happen. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project step by Step (covering Project online Desktop Client), you will walk through the procedures related to creating a new plan and setting its start date, setting nonworking days in a project calendar, and entering a plan’s title and other properties.
- By Cindy M. Lewis, Carl Chatfield, Timothy JohnsonMay 25, 2019
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project 2019 Step by Step, you'll learn to create a new plan using Project A project’s schedule or plan is essentially a model that you construct for some project aspects that you are anticipating—what you expect will happen, or what you want to happen. This model focuses on certain key aspects of a project, such as tasks, resources, time frames, and possible associated costs.
- Oct 10, 2016
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step, learn how to create a new plan and set its start date. This action makes all tasks begin as soon as possible and gives you the greatest scheduling flexibility.
Storing Data in Memory in Microsoft ADO.NET 4
- Oct 25, 2010
- This chapter from Microsoft ADO.NET 4 Step by Step introduces the DataRow class and its role in data storage within each data table.
Successful Project Management: Modifying the Project Schedule
- Mar 15, 2011
- This chapter from Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices, Proven Methods, and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project reviews different alternatives for optimizing your project schedule and how they affect duration, cost, scope, and quality (and whether the people who work on your project ever get to go home).
Supporting the Operating System and Application Installation for Windows 8.1
- Jul 31, 2014
- In this chapter from Exam Ref 70-688: Supporting Windows 8.1, you’ll learn how to support various operating system installations that are, for the most part, already in place, ranging from the most basic Windows 8.1 installations to native virtual hard disks to specialty Windows installations unique to a single enterprise. You’ll learn how to support desktop apps in many ways, too, including how to run those apps in virtual, cloud, or remote environments when running them on each workstation isn’t ideal. Finally, you’ll learn how network administrators can make their own apps available to users in a process called sideloading.
Supporting Windows 7 Users with Remote Assistance
- Oct 7, 2009
- This chapter from Windows 7 Resource Kit examines how Remote Assistance works in Windows 7, how to use it to support end users, and how to manage it using Group Policy and scripts.
Synopsis of "The Contents of a Requirements Specification"
- Jun 13, 2007
- There’s no single right way to organize a requirements specification, but certain topics recur in most systems and deserve their own sections. This chapter from Software Requirement Patterns discusses what a requirements specification should contain.
Table Expressions in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL
- Oct 22, 2008
- The focus of this chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals is SELECT queries against table expressions. This chapter also introduces the APPLY table operator used in conjunction with a table expression.
Taking Notes to Another Level with Microsoft OneNote 2013
- Apr 15, 2013
- You can do all sorts of things with Microsoft OneNote 2013. In this chapter from Microsoft OneNote 2013 Plain & Simple, learn how to work with handwritten notes, create an outline, insert pictures, take screen clips, and work with audio and video notes.
Team Foundation Build Quick Start
- Dec 24, 2010
- Learn the features and architecture of Team Build so you will be familiarized with its key components and how they relate to each other, in this chapter from Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, 2nd Edition.
- Oct 29, 2008
- In this chapter from Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways, you will gain a snapshot overview of how the different parts of the SharePoint team site will be used, set up alerts to pull you back into the SharePoint site, enter your context and contact details into SharePoint, find the overlap in everyone’s working day, establish and document a virtual teamworking protocol, start using the team blog, and learn how to work with SharePoint when offline.
Temporary Tables and Table Variables in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming
- Sep 23, 2009
- In this chapter from Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming, get a clear picture of how the different temporary object types behave, in which circumstances you should use each, and whether you should use them at all.
The 5 Principles and 10 Building Blocks of Persuasive Visual Storytelling
- By Cliff AtkinsonNov 22, 2018
In this sample chapter from Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to tell a compelling story that gets results, 4th Edition, Cliff Atkinson reviews step-by-step how the Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) Story Template creates a foundation for presentations that you will build upon with narration and graphics.
- Aug 15, 2011
- This chapter from Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer's Handbook covers .NET Data Types, including char, string, boolean, and date.
- By Wayne WinstonDec 20, 2021
The INDEX function makes it easy to reference an entire row or column of an array. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), 7th Edition, you will learn how to use the INDEX function to compute the distance between two cities.
- By Wayne WinstonApr 15, 2019
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 6th Edition, author Wayne Winston covers the INDEX function. The INDEX function allows you to return the entry in any row and column within an array of numbers.
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