ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To my coworkers—I joined MySQL as a PHP programmer in the Certification Division in 2007 after using the database for many years. Every MySQL-er has impressed me greatly, and I regularly feel like the dim bulb in a sea of shining neon lasers when we get together. To say MySQL has grown and thrived through the efforts of many persons is an understatement, and I am frankly humbled (and surprised) to be around you all.

To the MySQL Community—I am routinely set to slack-jaw yokel mode when talking to members of the MySQL Community when they tell me what they are doing with this incredible database. You folks routinely come up with new ways and combinations of using MySQL that impress me.

To Lisa McClain and Claire Yee at McGraw-Hill ...

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