About the Technical Reviewer

Stéphane Faroult is a French consultant who first discovered relational databases and the SQL language 30 years ago. Stéphane joined Oracle France in its early days (after a brief spell with IBM and a period of time teaching at the University of Ottawa), and developed an interest in performance and tuning topics, on which he soon started writing training courses. After leaving Oracle in 1988, Stéphane briefly tried going straight and did a bit of operational research, but after only a year he succumbed again to the allure of relational databases. He is currently visiting faculty in the Computing and Information Science Department at Kansas State University. For his sins, Stéphane has been performing database consultancy ...

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