Acknowledgments
I realized a while ago (around the time I completed my second book) that I was having way too much fun (and not nearly enough time) writing about PL/SQL to keep it all to myself. I wanted (and needed) to share the multitude of opportunities with the friends I have made around the world through my writing and through the PL/SQL Pipeline, an absolutely fantastic online, noncommercial community for PL/SQL developers (http://www.revealnet.com/plsql-pipeline). And that is what I have done with this book.
I have shared the opportunity, the excitement, and the agony of writing the material for this book with a number of excellent Oracle technologists: Darryl Hurley, Dwayne King, Vadim Loevski, Jim Lopatosky, Chuck Sisk, and Vladimir Trusevich. I feel particularly indebted to Darryl Hurley, who contributed many hours of effort—and many pages of problems—to this book. I’ve asked each of these contributors to share with you a brief biography:
Darryl Hurley is a database developer for Mobile Data Solutions, Inc. (http://www.mdsi-advantex.com) in Richmond, BC, Canada. What little free time he has is taken up loving Vanessa or doing something sports-related (occasion-ally both at the same time) and hoping to turn out just like his parents. He can be reached at dhurley@mdsi.bc.ca or implestrat@yahoo.com.
Dwayne King, founder and principal of KRIDAN Consulting (http://www.kridan-consulting.com) has been working with Oracle for seven years. Specializing in server-side programming and ...