Tom Nolan: 8 books

When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded crime-fiction writer in America. Long considered the rightful successor to the mantles of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and his Lew Archer-novels were hailed by The New York Times as "the...

“The two sides of Shaw . . . are at the center of . . . [this] compulsively readable biography.”—Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal During America’s Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader whose...

You are going to love this book because your confidence and knowledge will soar. V14 Certification: Teradata Basics has been designed to help you pass the test, but it is so much more. It is an incredible reference guide, learning tool, and foundation for passing all the tests and becoming a Teradata Certified Master.

'This book will take you through Viewpoint, TASM, and actually setting up workloads. They are some of the most difficult to understand of the Teradata technologies but also the most important. It is a step by step guide that will make these very challenging subjects easy to master. The step by step process,...

'This book will make every IT/Developer in your company a superstar. This book is designed to teach IT and developers everything they want to know about Teradata while leaving no stone unturned. They are going to see and understand Teradata at a level they’ve never understood it before. It is a brilliant...

The Brilliance of Netezza will make all readers instant experts on the architecture of Netezza. With its clever design and “secret sauce” of FPGA Cards and Zone Maps, Netezza is quickly becoming a staple of all major enterprise data warehouses. This is a perfect opportunity to make yourself an invaluable asset to your company by obtaining the kind of knowledge that this book contains.

This book will explain Aster Data so that users are instant experts. It will explain how things are set up, how things work, and all of the advanced analytics that Aster can provide. Like the other Genius Series books, it begins at a very basic level and gradually gets more and more detailed.

The Aster Data SQL and MapReduce book shows you the fundamental architecture that will allow you to fully understand how Aster Data works. You will be able to create tables, perform partitioning, follow the best Aster modeling strategies, and have a great reference for Aster Data SQL. You will also elevate...