Acknowledgments

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

—C. S. Lewis

I am not a genius, nor am I some form of pioneer in the database design world. I am just a person who 15 or so years ago asked the question of a publisher: “Do you have any books on database design?” The reply: “No, why don’t you write one?” So I did, and I haven’t stopped writing since then, with this book now in its fifth edition. I acknowledge that the following “people” have been extremely helpful in making this book happen and evolve along the way. Some have helped me directly, while others probably don’t even know that this book exists. Either way, they have all been an important part of the process.

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