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Refine your search by adding more terms or by limiting your search to specific parts of the site.
By default, InformIT only returns pages that match all the keywords entered in a search. The more keywords you use, the more refined the search becomes. You don't need to type the word and between keywords; it's done automatically by the search engine.
If keywords are surrounded by quotation marks, the search will only return pages that contain the keywords in the exact order as they appear within the quotation marks. For example, a search for "Enterprise Computing" will return only pages that contain the exact phrase, "Enterprise Computing."
The InformIT search engine does support Wild Card searches. This type of search works well when searching for similar acronyms. For example, a search for CC* would return content for the following Cisco certifications: CCDA, CCDP, CCIE, CCIP, CCNA, and CCNP. And you'll get more responses by searching for integrat* than you will for "integrate" or "integration."
The InformIT search engine is not case sensitive. A search for MySQL or MYSQL or mysql will return the same set of results.
Often, your first search attempt produces too many search results. (We have a lot of books and articles.) To narrow the results, you may want to perform a new search that searches only within the results returned by the too-broad search query. To narrow a search, add more words to the end of your search query. The new query usually will return a subset of the pages returned by the too-broad query.
Make sure all words are spelled correctly -- we don't have one of those fancy spell-check engines, and if we did they might not know how ADO.NET or Torvalds is spelled. Not sure of the spelling, or your term has a lot of variations? Try using a wildcard character (*) after the letters you do know.
To get more results, try to use more general keywords, or limit the number of keywords.
The fastest way to find a single book or article (if you have your heart set on only one title -- we'd be ever so much happier if you bought a stack of 'em) is to use the author's name or (in the case of a book) the ISBN. Enter the ISBN with no hyphens; it's supposed to work with them, too, but the search engine can be capricious about actually doing so. (And it's less typing, too.)
Also, unless your designated book is written by an especially prolific author, we've found that it's faster to search on the author name than on the book title.