Data Modeling, A Beginner's Guide

Acknowledgments

My thanks to all the people involved in the development of Data Modeling: A Beginner’s Guide. First, the editors and staff at McGraw-Hill, many of whom I do not know by name, provided untold hours of support for this project. Thanks to editorial director Wendy Rinaldi for the inspiration to write this book and for being so supportive when so many of life’s demands caught up with me at the same time. And thanks to editorial supervisor Janet Walden for all the useful comments throughout the editing process, and to acquisitions coordinator Joya Anthony for keeping the processes moving. A special thanks to technical editor Todd Meister for all his input—it really helped to make this a better book. And my hat is off to copy editors ...