Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite

Author's Acknowledgments

I first thought about writing this book while walking home after a particularly satisfying day at work. At the time, I was in Symbian's Persistent Data Services team. Symbian SQL had just been delivered for the first time to our customers and we were doing a pretty serious performance analysis. Outside the team, not many people knew much about Symbian SQL. We had accumulated considerable domain knowledge and it was time to share it by all possible means – through API documentation, engineering documents and examples. I thought that a book would be perfect medium for this and started slowly developing the idea.

Serendipitously, within days I was invited to a meeting with George Sewell, Jo Stichbury, Satu Dahl, Richard Maynard and several team members – to discuss writing a book about Symbian SQL! Clearly, I wasn't the only person thinking about this. George Sewell and Lorraine Martin had produced a proposal for the contents, not much different from what is in this book. A team was assembled, consisting of expert engineers who had built Symbian SQL and several that had used it within Symbian.

It is these people I would like to thank first. George Sewell's foresight on Symbian SQL, the SQLite Consortium and this book has contributed immensely to the success of Symbian SQL. I'd also like to thank him for his friendship and the opportunity to work in a fantastic team.

We wouldn't have gotten far without Jo Stichbury and Satu Dahl. Thanks to their publishing experience, ...