Acknowledgments

A famous politician once said that “it takes a village” to raise a child. If you’ve ever written a book—technical or otherwise—you know it takes a great team to turn your “child” into a successful book.

First, many thanks to our acquisitions editor and project manager, Trina MacDonald, who not only badgered John to follow up his successful SQL Queries for Mere Mortals® book with one for the Effective Software Development Series, but also shepherded the project through its many phases. John assembled a truly international team to help put the book together, and he personally thanks them for their diligent work. Special thanks to Tom Wickerath for his assistance both early in the project and later during technical review.

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