About the Author

Grant Allen has worked in the IT field for over 20 years as a CTO, enterprise architect, and database architect. Grant's roles have covered private enterprise, academia, and the government sector around the world, specializing in global-scale systems design, development, and performance. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences, on topics ranging from data mining to compliance, and technologies such as databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL), content management, collaboration, disruptive innovation, and mobile ecosystems like Android.

His first Android application was a task list to remind him to finish all his other unfinished Android projects.

Grant works for Google, and in his spare time is completing a PhD on building innovative high-technology environments.

Grant is the author of Beginning DB2: From Novice to Professional (Apress, 2008), and lead author of Oracle SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress, 2010) and The Definitive Guide to SQLite, 2nd Edition (Apress, 2010).