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Designing for Windows 8 is a fast-paced, 150-page primer on the key design concepts you need to create successful Windows 8 apps. This book will help you design a user interface that is both delightful and effective, feels right to your users, and encapsulates a great Windows 8 experience. In this book, you will: Meet the building blocks of solid Windows 8 UI designin a well-designed sample app. Learn how to incorporate key design elements into your apps, such as the app bar, charms and subtle animations from the animation library. Find out how to deliver the core experience that your users expect from Windows 8. Learn how to make your app stand out from thousands of others in the Windows Store. Its now time to create the next generation of ...

The question, "Why isnt Oracle using my index?" must be one of the most popular (or perhaps unpopular) questions ever asked on the Oracle help forums. Youve picked exactly the right columns, youve got them in the ideal order, youve computed statistics, youve checked for null columnsand the optimizer flatly refuses to use your index unless you hint it. What could possibly be going wrong? If youve suffered the frustration of watching the optimizer do something completely bizarre when the best execution plan is totally obvious, or spent hours or days trying to make the optimizer do what you want it to do, then this is the book you need. Youll come to know how the optimizer thinks, understand why it makes mistakes, and recognize the data patter...