Acknowledgments

I would like to thank many people who helped me in writing my first book. To begin with, I want to thank Thomas Kyte of Oracle Corporation, from whose books and site (http://asktom.oracle.com) I have learned many Oracle concepts. Thank you, Tom, for generously agreeing to review this book, for patiently answering many of my questions on Oracle (several times on weekends), and for being such a tremendous inspiration to me and to the Oracle community at large. This book would not have happened without your support and generosity.

I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to Rob Harrop, whose meticulous review comments made this book that much better and technically accurate. My sincere thanks are also due to the reviewers Torben Holm and Julian Dyke.