About the Reviewers

Pradeesh Parameswaran started working on computers and programming right from the age of 10. He wrote the first program for PalmOS and published to Handango. He is a geek and loves explaining and helping people with their computer problems. Currently, he blogs about tech-related stuff and provides how-to information in his blog at prasys.info. He is also currently working for a telecommunications company in Malaysia. Also, he is a big fan of the open source stuff!

I would like to thank my parents for the support and encouragement that they have given me over the years to enable me to grow.

Sergei Petrunia has been working on MariaDB since 2009. He has implemented features such as semijoin subquery optimizations, SHOW EXPLAIN, Cassandra storage engine, table elimination, and numerous smaller improvements. Prior to MariaDB, he was a member of the MySQL development team at MySQL AB and Sun Microsystems.

I would like to thank my girlfriend, Yulia, for being patient while I was spending time to provide input for this book.