The expert tuition and approach to rapid learning in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, one of the first SQL Server 2008 books available, will enable SQL Server and other database professionals to make the leap to the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship database management system quickly. Take full advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008, know what tools are available, and quickly realize the power and ease of use that SQL Server 2008 has to offer.

- Lightning–quick introduction to SQL Server 2008
- Written by top experts in the field
- Provides a solid grounding in key features and technologies

Your Hands-On Guide to SAP ERP Sales & Distribution  

Written by senior SAP consultant Glynn Williams, Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution is packed with tested, time-saving tips and advice. Learn how to use SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 and 6.0 to create sales documents and contracts, control material and customer master data, schedule deliveries, and automate billing. You'll also find out how to deliver robust financial and transactional reports, track customer and credit information, and interoperate with other SAP modules.

• Configure and manage the SAP ERP SD module
• Track sales, shipping, and payment status using master records
• Create multi-level sales documents and item proposals
• Develop contracts and rebate agreements
• Deliver materials and services requirements to the supply chain
• Plan deliveries, routes, and packaging using Logistics Execution
• Perform resource-related, collective, and self billing
• Generate pricing reports, incompletion logs, and hierarchies
• Handle credit limits, payment guarantees, and customer blocks
• Integrate user exits, third-party add-ons, and data sharing
• Configure pricing procedures and complex pricing condition types

The explosive growth of multimedia data transmission has generated a critical need for efficient, high-capacity image databases, as well as powerful search engines to retrieve image data from them. This book brings together contributions by an international all-star team of innovators in the field who share their insights into all key aspects of image database and search engine construction. Readers get in-depth discussions of the entire range of crucial image database architecture, indexing and retrieval, transmission, display, and user interface issues. And, using examples from an array of disciplines, the authors present cutting-edge applications in medical imagery, multimedia communications, earth science, remote sensing, and other major application areas.

Portable wireless mobile computing is the ability to retrieve information from the main computer system and/or repository of information on a wireless device at anytime and anywhere. An obvious plus here is the ability to also enter or update information on those main computer systems remotely via our wireless device. This gives us all the freedom to theoretically manipulate all information from afar.

The specific type of wireless devices used in our portable wireless mobile architecture is the Personal Digital Assistant, better known as the PDA. The usage of these types of devices is growing at an alarming rate. In the next five years, most cellular telephones will have Internet capabilities, and a large number of individuals will be porting a PDA of some sort.

The goal of this book is to introduce to you, the reader, how to build databases on personal digital devices to be used with PDA applications. Of course, we also try to show how to build PDA applications to use the data within the database.

The focus of this book is effective databases for text and document management inclusive of new and enhanced techniques, methods, theories and practices. The research contained in these chapters is of particular significance to researchers and practitioners alike because of the rapid pace at which the Internet and related technologies are changing our world. Already there is a vast amount of data stored in local databases and Web pages (HTML, DHTML, XML and other markup language documents). In order to take advantage of this wealth of knowledge, we need to develop effective ways of extracting, retrieving and managing the data. In addition, advances in both database and Web technologies require innovative ways of dealing with data in terms of syntactic and semantic representation, integrity, consistency, performance and security.

One of the objectives of this book is to disseminate research that is based on existing Web and database technologies for improved information extraction and retrieval capabilities. Another important objective is the compilation of international efforts in database systems, and text and document management in order to share the innovation and research advances being done at a global level.