Joel Murach is the oldest son of publishing pioneer Mike Murach. Joel has been writing and editing books about computer programming for over 20 years now. During that time, he has written extensively on a wide range of Java, .NET, web, and database technologies. He has had best-selling books in all of those categories! In his books, you can see his clear approach to teaching any subject.
"""I was amazed at how much information was packed into this book. The style of the book made it really easy to read and understand the information.... I learned a lot of new MySQL ideas reading this book, and I will be using it frequently as a reference."" -- Paul Turpin ""Southeastern Inter-Relational Database Users Group"""