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You know you need to analyze the success of your Web site, but how? Do you even know what to look for? Is there a tool powerful enough to help you evaluate your marketing efforts, products, and services, but simple enough to use if you're not a propeller-head? Google Analytics is that tool, and this is the handbook you need to make it work for you. Learn to set up Google Analytics, understand the reports it generates, and use the information to make your Web site a real asset to your business.
By utilizing the latest features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, you'll be able to provide your company with the security it needs while enabling employees to access critical information regardless of their location or type of device.Now with this comprehensive guide, you'll find out how to effectively install, configure, and manage Microsoft's powerful messaging and collaboration server. From reducing the amount of spam your company receives to ensuring you have the right disaster recovery strategy, authors Barry Gerber and Jim McBee share their extensive real-world experience as they walk you step-by-step through each process. You'll learn the essential techniques for planning and design, deployment, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.Fully updated for Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 R2, this book also covers new capabilities, including wireless access, security, customized e-mail forms for Outlook, and more. 
Data warehousing with MySQL, a free and popular database, has never been made easier with this step-by-step tutorial on building dimensional data warehouses. Topics include star-schema modeling, populating (Extract, Transform, and Load: ETL), testing, and dimensional querying. It comes complete with a hands-on case—scaled-down from a real project—as well as an electronic copy of all MySQL scripts and sample data available for download. Computer programmers who need to build a data warehouse will find relevant examples and information written in a thorough, easy-to-follow style.
Tuning of SQL code is generally cheaper than changing the data model. Physical and configuration tuning involves a search for bottlenecks that often points to SQL code or data model issues. Building an appropriate data model and writing properly performing SQL code can give 100%+ performance improvement. Physical and configuration tuning often gives at most a 25% performance increase. Gavin Powell shows that the central theme of Oracle10gR2 Performance Tuning is four-fold: denormalize data models to fit applications; tune SQL code according to both the data model and the application in relation to scalability; create a well-proportioned physical architecture at the time of initial Oracle installation; and most important, mix skill sets to obtain the best results.
Experience learning made easy, and quickly teach yourself Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)–one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps and practice files on CD, and master the fundamentals for using VBA to create custom software solutions and automating tasks in Excel 2007–no developer experience required! You'll learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and procedures, and customize menus and toolbars. You'll discover Excel Objects, including workbooks, range objects, graphics, and PivotTables®. Plus, you'll learn how to chart data from databases and other information sources. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction–building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files. 
Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that's easy to develop and maintain Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver's newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.
Many experienced users may initially find Excel 2007 rather disorientating. But Excel 2007: Beyond the Manual will introduce those who are already familiar with Excel basics to more advanced features, like consolidation, what-if analysis, PivotTables, sorting and filtering, and some commonly used functions.
Most Microsoft® Excel users learn only a small percentage of the program’s features. They know they could get more out of Excel if they could just get a leg up on building formulas and using functions. Unfortunately, this side of Excel appears complex and intimidating to the uninitiated–shrouded in the mysteries of mathematics, finance, and impenetrable spreadsheet jargon.
If you already know your way around Excel 2007 and want to use formulas to extend its capabilities even further, this go-to guide shows how to create financial formulas, use array formulas, develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, and more.
