Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jonathan Gennick, Jill Balzano, and the entire Apress staff; it takes a good (coordinated) team to produce a quality book.

Also thanks to many developers and DBAs that I’ve learned from over the years, including Dave Jennings, Scott Schulze, Bob Suehrstedt, Venkatesh Ranganathan, Valerie Eipper, Mike Tanaka, Simon Ip, Nitin Mittal, Mohan Shanmugavelu, Ric Ambridge, Kamal Chamakura, Dallas Powell, Krishna (KP) Tallapaneni, Laurie Bourgeois, Todd Sherman, Radha Ponnapalli, Mohan Koneru, Kevin O’Grady, Peter Schow, Sujit Pattnaik, Roger Murphy, Barb Sannwald, Pete Mullineaux, Janet Bacon, Shawn Heisdorffer, Mehran Sowdaey, Patrick David, Carson Vowles, Aaron Isom, Tim Gorman, Bill Wiley, Liz Brill, John Biernacki, Joe Stella, Mike Eason, and Jim Stark.