Acknowledgments

The authors would first like to thank their editors, Andy Oram and Ellen Siever, for both their skill at making our work look more professional and for the less obvious and likely less enjoyable task of putting us back on focus when our minds would wander.

Hugh Williams contributed the two chapters on PHP.

We also owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who provided us with critical looks at both editions of the book. Anyone familiar with MySQL knows the name Michael Widenius, the head of the MySQL project. He and another member of the MySQL team, Paul DuBois, sent in many valuable comments. Brian Jepson, Glenn MacGregor, Michael Schecter, and Jeremy Zawodny provided useful comments on the book overall.

Tim Allwine intensively reviewed the Perl material in Chapter 9 and provided some new examples and ideas. Chris Brooks and Tim Bunce also made corrections to the Perl code.

From Randy Yarger

I would like to thank my fiancée, Stacie Sheldon, for the support and love that has kept me sane. I would also like to thank Andy Oram for encouraging a relatively unknown author. Finally, but definitely not lastly, I would like to thank those who made it possible for me to be here: my mother, my father, and my creator.

From George Reese

I would specifically like to thank my wife, Monique, for using her professional proof-reading abilities on each one of my chapters. Leigh Caldwell also provided some critical eleventh-hour feedback on the first edition of the MySQL chapters. Finally, I have to mention my cats, Misty, Gypsy, and Tia.

From Tim King

I wish to acknowledge Professor John Carlis, for getting me interested in database technology and data modeling in the first place; Mark Kale, for teaching me more about it than I ever learned in college; the lovely Ann Soter, for her moral support and patience; and my mother and father, for encouraging my interest in computers before it was cool to be a geek!