Acknowledgments
We'd first like to thank Debby Russell, our
editor at O'Reilly Media, for supporting us through this endeavor
and for being the organizing force behind the end-to-end project.
Many other people at O'Reilly also
played
a big role in the book's
development, including Adam Witwer, the production editor, and Rob
Romano, the illustrator; additional production services were
provided by Argosy Publishing.
The role of the technical reviewers in the
production of this book was
absolutely
critical. The scope of
coverage included not just the MySQL stored program language but
also five other development languages and many features of the
MySQL 5.0 server itself. Furthermore, the stored program language
was evolving as we
constructed
the book. Without the
valuable
inputs from our technical reviewers, we would have been unable to
achieve any reasonable degree of accuracy and currency across the
entire scope. Reviewers included Tim Allwine, Brian Aker, James
Cooper, Greg Cottman, Paul DuBois, Andy Dustman, Peter Gulutzan,
Mike Hillyer, Arjen Lentz, and Mark Matthews. Thanks guys!
To the
open
source community in general and to
the MySQL development community in particular, we also give thanks.
The availability of free (both as in beer and as in speech)
software of such quality and innovation is a source of constant
amazement and gratification. Many in the MySQL and associated
communities
contributed
to the existence of this in so many
ways.
We worked with some of the maintainers of the
various open source interfaces to MySQL to ensure that these were
able to support some of the new features introduced in MySQL 5.0.
Thanks to Wez Furlong, Patrick Galbraith, and Andy Dustman in
particular for their help in patching the PHP PDO, Perl DBI, and
Python MySQLdb interfaces.
From Guy: On a personal note, I would like toas
alwaysthank my wife Jenni and children Christopher, Katherine,
Michael, and William for
putting
up with me during this and other
writing projects. Thanks with much love. Alsoof coursethanks to
Steven for working with me on this book.
From Steven: I have spent the last 10
years
studying
, working with, and writing about the Oracle PL/SQL
language. That experience has demonstrated very clearly to me the
value and importance of stored programs. I was very excited,
therefore, when Guy invited me to work with him on a book about
MySQL stored programs. I have no doubt that this new functionality
will help extend the reach and
usefulness
of MySQL, and I thank Guy
for the opportunity to help MySQL programmers make the most of this
key open source relational database.
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