Jinyu Wang - Oracle Database 11g Building Oracle XML DB Applications

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I appreciate my Oracle colleagues, customers, and partners. With their help and talent, I am able to enjoy exploring incredible technologies and solutions. I also thank my acquisitions team at McGraw-Hill, Stephanie Evans and Wendy Rinaldi, for making this book possible.

Many thanks to the technical reviewers: Coby Adams, Vikas Arora, and Kongyi Zhou. Many thanks to other reviewers and those who helped me with the technical problems, including Shijun Cheng, Susan Duncan, Geoff Lee, Tim Yu, Hui Zhang, Vadiraj Hosur, Mark Dake, Nipun Agarwal, Ravi Palakodet, Rohan Anguish, Sam Idicula, Thomas Baby, Timothy Chien, and Vinay Agarwal. Thanks for your patience in explaining the product features, and for the valuable discussions on the technology and products. Thanks to my managers, Vishu Krishnamurthy and Andrew Mendelsohn. Your support makes my journey at Oracle challenging but enjoyable.

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