Acknowledgments

Loretta Yates, acquisitions editor, made sure that I didn't fall too far behind the manuscript submission and author review schedule. Sean Dixon, development editor, contributed to the content and organization of this new edition. Andy Beaster, project editor, worked hard to make sure that all of the components of this edition flowed through the editing process and got to their final destination on time. Media developer Dan Scherf handled production of the accompanying CD-ROM.

Technical editor Rebecca M. Riordan is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming Step by Step and Designing Relational Database Systems (Microsoft Press). Rebecca has worked as a consultant, systems analyst, and senior technical support engineer. She has completed coursework in database design and analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Rebecca also was a presenter at Microsoft Tech*Ed 1994 and 1995.

Steven Gray and Rick Lievano, authors of Roger Jennings' Database Workshop: Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0, created the original version of the Oakmont.mdb database for the CD-ROM as a Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 database.