When one is writing a book, there are many people who are involved at various stages of the production cycle. The extremely important, but often silent, contributors are those people who give up their valuable spare time to review the book. The authors are extremely grateful to the following people who reviewed numerous chapters in this book.
Ramu Arunachalam, Siddarth Velur, Jaganath Rai are developers in the Oracle Warehouse Builder group, India Development Center, Oracle Corporation.
Hermann Baer is the Product Manager for Oracle’s ETL capabilities in the database.
Tammy Bednar is the Product Manager for Oracle’s backup and recovery products.
Randy Bello is a Principal Software Engineer in Oracle Server Technologies, New England Development center, and is one of the main architects of Query Rewrite with Materialized Views.
Paula Bingham is a Principal Software Engineer and the Project Leader of Oracle Change Data Capture.
Ian Carney is a Senior Principal Consultant within Oracle UK Consulting.
Larry Carpenter is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in Oracle Server Technologies, and has extensive experience working with customers implementing Data Guard.
Xiaobin Chen is a Development Manager for Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Jean-Pierre Dijcks is the Product Manager for Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Corporation.
Mike Durran is the Discoverer Product Manager, Oracle Corporation
John Haydu is the Product Manager for SQL Analytics in the Oracle database.
Ramkumar Krishnan, Mark Hornick, Margaret Taft, Xiafang Barr, Bob Haberstroh, Sunil Venkayala, are from the Oracle Data Mining group.
Paul Manning is the Senior Product Manager at Oracle for the Automatic Storage Management feature.
David Martland is a Technical Architect with the Britannia Building Society in the UK, who has many years experience using the Oracle database.
Priya Panchapagesan is a Principal Software Engineer in Oracle Server Technologies, New England Development Center, and is one of the main developers of Partition Change Tracking for Summary Management.
Ananth Raghavan is the Senior Development Manager for Partitioning Technology, Oracle Corporation.
Ashish Ray is the Senior Product Manager for Oracle Data Guard.
Mark Rittman is an Oracle Certified Professional and the Consulting Manager at SolStone Plus in the UK.
Marilyn Saunders is a Principal Software Engineer and leader of the QA team for Oracle Data Pump.
Michael D. Schmitz is the President of Business Knowledge Professionals Inc., in Bend, Oregon, and specializes in dimensional modeling and building warehouses in his consulting practice.
Kathy Taylor is a Principal Technical Writer in the OLAP Technologies group at Oracle Corporation.
Murali Thiyagarajan is a Principal Software Engineer in Oracle Server Technologies, New England Development Center, and has worked on several query rewrite algorithms.
Paul Tsien is a product manager specializing in High Availability, Oracle Corporation.
Andy Witkowski, is an Architect in Oracle Server Technologies, responsible for much of the ROLAP functionality in Oracle RDBMS, including SQL analytic and aggregation functions and SQL Model clause.
Min Xiao is a Senior Software Engineer in Oracle Server Technologies, New England Development center, and has worked extensively on Dimensions.
The previous editions of this book was also reviewed by Srinivas Bala, Jay Davison, Bud Endress, Jay Feenan, Abhinav Gupta, Ramkumar Krishnan, James Lear, Lory Molesky, Judy Muller, Dennis Murray, Simon Oxbury, Jack Raitto and Mike Rubino.
We also need to say a big thank you to:
Max Hillson whose e-commerce site coolstuffcheap.com, served as the inspiration for many of the shopping examples.
Chuck Rozwat, Executive Vice President of Oracle Server Technologies, Steve Hagan, Vice President of the Oracle New England Development Center, and Juan Loaiza, Vice President of Oracle High Availability for their encouragement and support while writing this book.
Finally this book is dedicated to all the software developers at Oracle from around the world who build the software which makes this book possible.
Our thanks also go Theron Shreve and Pam Chester at Reed Elsevier and Alan Rose and his team for actually producing this book.