MySQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

Second Edition

Thanks to my technical reviewer, Richard Sonnen, who spotted a number of problems and made many suggestions to improve the book. Andy Oram prodded me to begin the second edition and served as its initial editor. When other duties called him away, Brian Jepson took over. My thanks to both for providing editorial oversight and direction. Adam Witwer directed the production process. Mary Anne Mayo copyedited the text, and Sada Preisch proofread it. Joe Wizda wrote the index.

Thanks to my wife Karen, who again provided valuable support during the process of producing this new edition.

First Edition

I’d like to thank my technical reviewers, Tim Allwine, David Lane, Hugh Williams, and Justin Zobel. They made several helpful suggestions and corrections with regard to both organizational structure and technical accuracy. Several members of MySQL AB were gracious enough to add their comments: In particular, principal MySQL developer Monty Widenius combed the text and spotted many problems. Arjen Lentz, Jani Tolonen, Sergei Golubchik, and Zak Greant reviewed sections of the manuscript as well. Andy Dustman, author of the Python MySQLdb module, and Mark Matthews, author of MM.MySQL and MySQL Connector/J, also provided feedback. My thanks to all for improving the manuscript; any errors remaining are my own.

Laurie Petrycki, executive editor, conceived the idea for the book and provided valuable overall editorial guidance and cattle-prodding. Lenny Muellner, tools expert, ...