SQL in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

We’d like to take a moment to thank a few special individuals at O’Reilly Media. First, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Julie Steele, the editor of this third edition. Julie helped keep our noses to the grindstone and ensured that we finished what we started. With her helpful and relaxed work style, Julie was always a pleasure to work with. Thank you for all you’ve done for us!

We also owe a debt to our fine technical reviewers. To Peter Gulutzan (SQL Standard, from the second edition), Thomas Lockhart (PostgreSQL), Ronald Bradford (Oracle/MySQL), and Richard Sonnen (Oracle): we owe you a hearty thanks! Your contributions have greatly improved the accuracy, readability, and value of this book. Without you, our sections on each of the language extensions would have been on shaky ground. In addition, we’d like to tip our hat to Peter Gulutzan and Trudy Pelzer for their book SQL-99 Complete, Really! (R&D), which helped us understand the ANSI SQL3 standards.