Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank my technical reviewers, Tim
Allwine, David Lane, Hugh Williams, and Justin Zobel. They made
several helpful suggestions and corrections with regard to both
organizational structure and technical accuracy. Several members of
MySQL AB were gracious enough to add their comments: In particular,
principal MySQL developer Monty Widenius combed the text and spotted
many problems. Arjen Lentz, Jani Tolonen, Sergei Golubchik, and Zak
Greant reviewed sections of the manuscript as well. Andy Dustman,
author of the Python MySQLdb module, and Mark Matthews, author of
MM.MySQL and MySQL Connector/J, also provided feedback. My thanks to
all for improving the manuscript; any errors remaining are my own.
Laurie Petrycki, executive editor, conceived the idea for the book
and provided valuable overall editorial guidance and cattle-prodding.
Lenny Muellner, tools expert, assisted in the conversion of the
manuscript from my original format into something printable. David
Chu acted as editorial assistant. Ellie Volckhausen designed the
cover, which I am happy to see is reptilian in nature. Linley Dolby
served as the production editor and proofreader, and Colleen Gorman,
Darren Kelly, Jeffrey Holcomb, Brian Sawyer, and Claire Cloutier
provided quality control.
Thanks to Todd Greanier and Sean Lahman of The Baseball Archive for
all their hard work in putting together the baseball database that is
used for several of the examples in this book.
Some authors are able to compose text productively while sitting at a
keyboard, but I write better while sitting far from a
computer—preferably with a cup of coffee. That being so,
I'd like to acknowledge my debt to the
Sow's Ear coffee shop in Verona for providing
pleasant surroundings in which to spend many hours scribbling on
paper.
My wife Karen provided considerable support and understanding in what
turned out to be a much longer endeavor than anticipated. Her
encouragement is much appreciated, and her patience something to
marvel at.
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