Andy Oppel - SQL: A Beginner’s Guide

Andrew (Andy) J. Oppel is a proud graduate of The Boys Latin School of Maryland and of Transylvania University (Lexington, KY) where he earned a BA in computer science in 1974. Since then he has been continuously employed in a wide variety of information technology positions, including programmer, programmer/analyst, systems architect, project manager, senior database administrator, database group manager, consultant, database designer, data modeler, technical trainer, and data architect. In addition, he has been a part-time instructor with the University of California (Berkeley) Extension for more than 30 years and received the Honored Instructor Award for the year 2000. His teaching work included developing three courses for UC Extension, Concepts of Database Management Systems, Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems, and Data Modeling and Database Design. He also earned his Oracle 9i Database Associate certification in 2003. He is currently employed as a technical program manager for GoodData Corporation. Aside from computer systems, Andy enjoys music (guitar and vocals) and amateur radio.

Andy has designed and implemented hundreds of databases for a wide range of applications, including medical research, banking, insurance, apparel manufacturing, telecommunications, wireless communications, human resources, and business intelligence. He is the author of Databases Demystified (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010), SQL Demystified (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005), and Data Modeling: A Beginners Guide (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010), and coauthor of SQL: The Complete Reference, Third Edition (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009). His database product experience includes IMS, DB2, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MySQL, HP Vertica, and Oracle.

James Seymour is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in history and political science and the University of Kentucky with an MA in history. He first became involved with computer technology in 1965 with the mainframe environment at North Carolina. While in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, he was on the small team that worked with the mainframe setup at the Pentagon for various military strategic scenarios. Since 1972, he has been involved in many varied computer environments, including the second point-of-sale and inventory control project in the retail industry, analytical programs and database initiatives in the insurance and benefits industries, risk analysis and loss control start-ups, and many other application projects throughout many different industries.

From 1987 through 1995, Mr. Seymour was an instructor of database management in the community college system of the state of Kentucky. In this capacity, he created the first database management and C programming courses in the state of Kentucky and helped both public and private entities with urgent training needs, including the programming of guidance systems on cruise missiles for Desert Storm.

Before 1985 and through 1995, he was a system administrator, network administrator, programmer, and database administrator. Since 1985, Mr. Seymour has been a senior database administrator working primarily with DB2 and Oracle DBMSs on multiple platforms plus SQL Server beginning with version 7.0. In 2002, he became a senior data/database architect and one of the senior database administrators for a Fortune 100 company overseeing major projects in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. While with this firm, he joined the author of this book, Andy Oppel, in writing many best practices and standards documents.

In 2010, Mr. Seymour began writing books on various topics in information technology and business. Currently, he has 26 small books on different topics for businesses, a large 460-page book on the enterprise in business and information technology, and a 280-page book on data archival and its importance. Additionally, Mr. Seymour has developed a ministry online to work with ministries around the world in various capacities; as of 2015, he works with nearly 3,800 ministries.

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