About the Authors

Paul DuBois is a member of the MySQL documentation team, a database administrator, and a leader in the Open Source and MySQL communities. He contributed to the online documentation for the MySQL and is the author of MySQL (Developer's Library), MySQL and Perl for the Web (New Riders Publishing), and MySQL Cookbook, Using csh and tcsh, and Software Portability with imake (O'Reilly and Associates).

Stefan Hinz is the MySQL documentation team lead, a former MySQL trainer, and the German translator of the MySQL Reference Manual. He is also the translator of Paul's MySQL Cookbook (O'Reilly and Associates) and translator and author of MySQL-related German books. Stefan passed the MySQL Certification exam before he joined MySQL AB.

Carsten Pedersen is the MySQL AB certification manager who has led the development of the MySQL certification program since its inception in 2002. He has lectured at conferences and taught MySQL courses in many countries, from Silicon Valley, USA in the west, across Europe, to Beijing, China, in the East. Before joining MySQL AB, he administered databases in several production systems and maintained a very popular "MySQL FAQ and Tools" Internet site.