Special Thanks to:

Becky Morgan for picking up on the first ring.

Marjorie Baer for tossing me a “Do you know SQL?”

Kathy Simpson for sleeping 10 minutes every other day, whether she needed it or not.

Lisa Brazieal for cutting and pasting (repeatedly).

Maureen Forys for not splitting keywords.

Bryan Steinweg for continuing on next page.

Darren Pennington for getting on his soapbox.

Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel for the seabreezes.

The data in the sample database are fictional. I lifted two book titles from Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels.

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