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About the
Technical Reviewers
■CHRIS DATE is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant
specializing in relational database systems. He was one of the first
people anywhere to recognize the fundamental importance of Ted Codd’s
pioneering work on the relational model. He was also involved in technical
planning for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2 at the IBM Santa Teresa
Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is best known for his books—in
particular An Introduction to Database Systems, Eighth Edition (Addison-
Wesley, 2003), the standard text in the field, which has sold nearly three
quarters of a million copies worldwide—and (with Hugh Darwen and
Nikos A. Lorentzos) Temporal Data and the Relational Model (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2002).
■CARY MILLSAP is the principal author of Optimizing Oracle Performance
(O’Reilly, 2003) and the lead designer and developer of the Hotsos PD101
course. Prior to cofounding Hotsos in 1999, he served for ten years at
Oracle Corp. as one of the company’s leading system performance
experts. At Oracle, he also founded and served as vice president of the
80-person System Performance Group. He has educated thousands of
Oracle consultants, support analysts, developers, and customers in the
optimal use of Oracle technology through his commitment to writing,
teaching, and speaking at public events.
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