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Want to get an early look at our titles? Try an Alpha Book! An Alpha Book is a pre-release, still-in-development version of an Apress title. When you purchase an Alpha Book, you get the opportunity to review its content as it advances through the production process. Alpha Book files are updated on a regular basis in your account as new material is completed, all the way through final publication. Following is a list of our current roster of Alpha Books:
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Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services
Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services is your key to building powerful extract, transform, load (ETL) solutions using SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS).
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Broken Markets explains how global finance drove 40 years of prosperity before missteps harmed the system, how governments are helping perpetuate problems in capital markets, how financial-services firms lost their way and how they can restore the values that once made them great, and what all this means for society and your wallet.
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Learn Electronics with Arduino
Learn electronics concepts while building Arduino-based gadgets, and start down the road to electronic innovation.
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Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration
Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration provides the essential skills and knowledge needed to begin a successful career as an SQL Server database administrator.
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Practical help in the form of humorous and biting anecdotes designed for managers, or anyone facing the role of "manager," and wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans.
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Pro JavaScript for Web Apps gives you all of the information that you need to create professional, optimized, and efficient JavaScript applications that will run across all devices.
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Learn to write apps for some of today's hottest technologies, including the iPhone and iPad (using iOS), as well as the Mac (using OS X). Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS, Second Edition is an extensive, newly updated guide to Objective-C, the native language that is the underlying foundation for the iOS and OS X software development kits.
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Beginning Database Design, Second Edition helps you ask and answer important questions about your data so that you can avoid pitfalls and get database design right the first time.
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SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning
SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them.
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WinRT Revealed helps you get up to speed quickly on Microsoft's new runtime environment for developing Windows 8 applications.
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Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012
Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012Â is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indexes, and how to best use them.
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Beginning T-SQL 2012 is the first step toward learning the T-SQL language that underlies Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine.
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