Over the past decade, wireless data networking has developed into its own discipline. There is no doubt that the evolution of wireless networks has had signifi cant impact on our lifestyle. This book is designed to provide a unified foundation of principles for data-oriented wireless networking and mobile communications.
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This book provides the tools you need to successfully tackle the potentially overwhelming challenge of learning to use Microsoft Excel. In this book, you learn how to create spreadsheets; however, what you do with them is totally up to you. Your imagination is the only limit!
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This book charts a practical course of action to put your business Web site to work, adding profits to your bottom line. Whether you’re just beginning to develop an online presence or you’ve been online for years and are anxious to build traffic, this book will help you drive prospects to your site and convert them into customers.
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If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you’ll quickly find just what you need to know about navigating the new interface; using the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar; saving, protecting, and recovering workbook files; entering and editing data; creating formulas and functions, and much more.
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Most scientists and engineers received some training in computer programming in their college days, but they (or their computer) may no longer have the capability to write or run programs in, for example, FORTRAN. This book shows how to implement numerical methods using Microsoft Excel, the most widely used spreadsheet software package.

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With technical insights direct from the Windows Server team, this practical introduction delivers real-world implementation scenarios and pragmatic advice for administering Windows Server in the enterprise.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Windows Server 2008 at the Beta 3 milestone. Because Beta 3 is a pre-release version of the platform, some features will likely change before release to manufacturing (RTM) occurs. So the descriptions of these features in this book might not be completely accurate. However, please be assured that the author, working together with the Windows Server 2008 product team at Microsoft, has tried very hard to ensure that the information presented in this book will still be as accurate as possible even after RTM.
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This book is not just about SQL, but also about how SQL fits into the process of creating and maintaining databases and database applications. In this book, I cover how SQL fits into the larger world of application development and how it handles data coming in from other computers, which may be on the other side of the world, or even in interplanetary space.
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This book is an introduction to modern credit risk methodology as well a cookbook for putting credit risk models to work. We hope that the two purposes go together well. From our own experience, analytical methods are best understood by implementing them.
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Without a proper data model of the information requirements of an enterprise, an adequate database system cannot be correctly designed and implemented for the organization. A good data model of high quality forms an essential prerequisite for any successful database system. Unless the data modelers represent the information requirements of the organization in a proper data model, the database design will be totally ineffective.

The theme of this book is to present the fundamentals and ideas and practices about creating good and useful data models—data models that can function effectively as tools of communication with the user community and as database blueprints for database practitioners.
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This book is aimed squarely at Excel users who want to harness the power of the VBA language in their Excel applications. At all times, the VBA language is presented in the context of Excel, not just as a general application programming language.

The Primer has been written for those who are new to VBA programming and the Excel object model. It introduces the VBA language and the features of the language that are common to all VBA applications. It explains the relationship between collections, objects, properties, methods, and events and shows how to relate these concepts to Excel through its object model. It also shows how to use the Visual Basic Editor and its multitude of tools, including how to obtain help.
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