MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

Acknowledgments

We'd first like to thank Debby Russell, our editor at O'Reilly Media, for supporting us through this endeavor and for being the organizing force behind the end-to-end project. Many other people at O'Reilly also played a big role in the book's development, including Adam Witwer, the production editor, and Rob Romano, the illustrator; additional production services were provided by Argosy Publishing.

The role of the technical reviewers in the production of this book was absolutely critical. The scope of coverage included not just the MySQL stored program language but also five other development languages and many features of the MySQL 5.0 server itself. Furthermore, the stored program language was evolving as we constructed the book. Without the valuable inputs from our technical reviewers, we would have been unable to achieve any reasonable degree of accuracy and currency across the entire scope. Reviewers included Tim Allwine, Brian Aker, James Cooper, Greg Cottman, Paul DuBois, Andy Dustman, Peter Gulutzan, Mike Hillyer, Arjen Lentz, and Mark Matthews. Thanks guys!

To the open source community in general and to the MySQL development community in particular, we also give thanks. The availability of free (both as in beer and as in speech) software of such quality and innovation is a source of constant amazement and gratification. Many in the MySQL and associated communities contributed to the existence of this in so many ways.

We worked with some of the maintainers of ...