How We Got Here
Taking a book from an idea to a finished product involves a great many people. Al-
though my name is on the cover, this could not have been possible without all of their
help.
First, I would like to acknowledge the friendship and support of my primary editor,
Mike Loukides. Thanks to some mutual friends, I first started doing technical reviews
for Mike over eight years ago. Through the years, Mike gently encouraged me to take
on my own project.
The first step on that path came nearly three years ago. I had downloaded a set of
database exports from the Wikipedia project and was trying to devise a minimal data-
base configuration that would (hopefully) cram nearly all the current data onto a small
flash storage card. The end goal was to provide a local copy of the Wikipedia articles
on an ebook reader I had. SQLite was a natural choice. At some point, frustrated with
trying to understand the correct call sequence, I threw my hands up and exclaimed,
“Someone should write a book about this!”—Ding!—The proverbial light bulb went
off, and many, many (many…) late nights later, here we are.
Behind Mike stands the whole staff of O’Reilly Media. Everyone I interacted with did
their best to help me out, calm me down, and fix my problems—sometimes all at once.
The production staff understands how to make life easy for the author, so that we can
focus on writing and leave the details to someone else.
I would like to thank D. Richard Hipp, the creator and lead maintainer of SQLite. In
addition to coordinating the continued development of SQLite and providing us all
with a high-quality software product, he was also gracious enough to answer numerous
questions, as well as review a final draft of the manuscript. Some tricky spots went
through several revisions, and he was always quick to review things and get back to me
with additional comments.
A technical review was also done by Jon W. Marks. Jon is an old personal and profes-
sional friend with enterprise-class database experience. He has had the opportunity to
mentor several experienced developers as they made their first journey into the rela-
tional database world. Jon provided very insightful feedback, and was able to pinpoint
areas that are often difficult for beginners to grasp.
My final two technical reviewers were Jordan Hawker and Erin Moy. Although they
are knowledgeable developers, they were relatively new to relational databases. As they
went through the learning process, they kept me honest when I started to make too
many assumptions, and kept me on track when I started to skip ahead too quickly.
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