Author: Anil Desai
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, server, guides, virtual, microsoft, guide, managing
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1932577289
ISBN-13: 9781932577280

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is Microsoft’s server-side virtualization product. Virtual Server has been designed to allow users a great deal of power and flexibility in hosting virtual machines in mission-critical Enterprise deployments without having to invest in additional hardware. In this clear and concise book, Microsoft MVP Anil Desai discusses the benefits of virtualization technology and covers the essentials of working with Virtual Server 2005, including installation, configuration, creating a virtual machine, and installing a guest operating system. It covers

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, guides, blogger, google, guide
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0972688870
ISBN-13: 9780972688871

Learn how to build your own blog using Google’s free Blogger service. This book covers the basic and the not-so-basic concepts and technologies that you need to know in order to thrive in the blogging world. With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can trac

Author: Donald Farmer
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, guides, script, extending, guide, ssis
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1932577254
ISBN-13: 9781932577259

The Integration Services feature of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 brings together data from diverse sources in a high-performance data integration platform, to enable users to work across multiple applications that may not have been designed to cooperate. In this book, Donald Farmer, Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for SQL Server Integration Services, clearly explains how to build practical and useful scripts for this exciting new SQL Server 2005 feature. His systematic approach, friendly tutorials, and numerous examples are suitable for both developers and IT professiona

Author: Barbara Weltman
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, credit, guides, business, small, guide, building
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1932577343
ISBN-13: 9781932577341

Small businesses figure importantly in the American economy, yet few resources exist for small business owners looking to build their credit. In The Rational Guide to Building Small Business Credit, Barbara Weltman offers an indispensable new guide that clearly explains how to build and maintain a credit profile for your company. This book covers the fundamentals of credit building, including the five C’s of credit analysis and how to register your D-U-N-S® number with Dunn & Bradstreet. Advanced concepts include re-establishing poor credit, working with the governm

Author: Joe Webb
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, guides, guide, consulting
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-06
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0972688854
ISBN-13: 9780972688857

Learn how to begin and grow your own Information Technology (IT) consulting company. In this economy where IT jobs are being lost all the time, you need to arm yourself with the knowledge to compete in today’s marketplace. The Rational Guide To: IT Consulting shows all you need to know to begin or grow your own IT consulting company - for a price that’s less than $10. This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach in a compact guide - only 128 pages. The book is written for a beginner to intermediate-level audience, so you learn the basics…fast! This book is written

Author: A. T. Mann
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, services, guides, reporting, server, guide, sql
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0972688897
ISBN-13: 9780972688895

This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach to learning the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services, which is available for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and later. In only 160 pages, you’ll quickly learn the basics of creating, managing, deploying, and using Microsoft’s new innovative reporting platform. The Rational Guide To: SQL Server Reporting Services discusses specific concepts and then shows you how to accomplish each task step-by-step. This book comes with free applications and source code to manage images in your databases, view SQL Server Reporting Services log files, a

Author: Zac Woodall
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, templates, guides, access, office, guide, microsoft
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-28
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1932577386
ISBN-13: 9781932577389

Microsoft® Access 2007 uses templates to create tracking applications, offering a rich user experience for entering, managing, and reporting on data for targeted scenarios. In The Rational Guide to Microsoft® Office Access 2007 Templates, Microsoft Program Manager Zac Woodall shows how to design, create, and share Access templates. Topics include customization, personalization, branding, and working with SharePoint. Advanced topics include template file anatomy, template collections, enterprise templates, generating templates without running Access, and integrating templates