SQL Bible, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Alex: I would like to thank my family for their patience, support, and understanding.

Boris: I sincerely thank my wife, Kate, for her professional help, moral support, and unconditional understanding.

I am grateful to all my friends who were with me when I needed them.

My gratitude also goes to Professor Jaideep Srivastava, who introduced me to the relational database world.

Alex and Boris: We would like to thank Jim Melton for extremely thorough editing as well as for the illuminating insights into the book's content. This book came out much better because of his help! Our gratitude goes to our other technical editors — Victor Shulman (also a contributing author on this book) and Christopher Moore for their efforts in preparing the final version of the book.

We would like to sincerely thank our contributing authors: Alex Makarov, for contributing to Appendix D, "Installing RDBMS Software," and Appendix E, "Accessing RDBMS"; Kate Trukhnova, for contributing to Chapter 8, "Understanding the SELECT Statement"; and Victor Shulman, for illuminating finer points of database technologies in general, and SQL/XML in particular, and for contributing to Chapter 15, "SQL and XML."

We thank Robert Elliott, executive editor at Wiley Publishing, for help with developing and presenting the project, and patient and professional guidance through the maze of editorial procedures.

We thank the Wiley editorial team, especially out development editor, Christopher Rivera, and our production ...