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bases,” the statement rings even more powerfully true for the worldwide community of
talented database designers.
Acknowledgments
As with any text of this breadth, there are many people aside from the authors who
contribute to the reviewing, editing, and publishing that make the final text what it is.
We’d like to pay special thanks to the following people from a range of companies and
consulting firms who contributed to the book: Sanjay Agarwal, Eric Alton, Hermann
Baer, Kevin Beck, Surajit Chaudhuri, Kitman Cheung, Leslie Cranston, Yuri Deigin,
Chris Eaton, Scott Fadden, Lee Goddard, Peter Haas, Scott Hayes, Lilian Hobbs, John
Hornibrook, Martin Hubel, John Kennedy, Eileen Lin, Guy Lohman, Wenbin Ma,
Roman Melnyk, Mughees Minhas, Vivek Narasayya, ...