Acknowledgments

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I d like to acknowledge my debt to Michael Monty Widenius and to the other MySQL developers for creating a database that s been so rewarding to help document, and for being so accessible in responding to questions.

Thanks also to my employers at NuSphere, both for helping to further the development of MySQL and for putting up with my spending so much time writing about it.

My technical reviewers, Bill Gerrard and Jeremy D. Zawodny, contributed valuable comments and criticisms, and, much as I hate to admit it, found a few bugs as well. Their efforts made this a better book for you to read.

The people at New Riders responsible for bringing you this book are Stephanie Wall (Executive Editor), Chris Zahn (Development Editor), Lori Lyons (Senior Editor), Keith Cline (Copy Editor), Joy Dean Lee (Indexer), and Amy Parker (Compositor).You wouldn t be reading this book now if it weren t for Stephanie, by the way it was her idea.

Thanks to the staff at the Maple Grove Victor Allen s and to the proprietresses of the Sow s Ear in Verona, the coffee shops where the bulk of this book was written. Their establishments provide surroundings conducive to thinking and setting pencil to paper except during the tumult and din of Celtic Music Sundays at the Ear!

Most of all, my love and appreciation to my wife Karen. Her steadfast support of my efforts to write while in the midst of significantly changing life circumstances helped in the completion of this book more than she will probably ever know, and certainly more than I can express.

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