Joe Celko served 10 years on ANSI/ISO SQL Standards Committee

and contributed to the SQL-89 and SQL-92 Standards.

He has written over 900 columns in the computer trade and

academic press, mostly dealing with data and databases, and has

authored seven other books on SQL for Morgan Kaufmann:

• SQL for Smarties (1995, 1999, 2005, 2010)

• SQL Puzzles and Answers (1997, 2006)

• Data and Databases (1999)

• Trees and Hierarchies in SQL (2004)

• SQL Programming Style (2005)

• Analytics and OLAP in SQL (2005)

• Thinking in Sets (2008)

Mr. Celko’s past columns include:

• Columns for Simple Talk (Redgate Software)

• “CELKO,” Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP)

• BMC’s DBAzine.com e-magazine (BMC Software)

• “SQL Explorer,” DBMS (Miller Freeman)

• “Celko on SQL,” Database Programming and Design (Miller

Freeman)

• “WATCOM SQL Corner,” Powerbuilder Developers’ Journal

(SysCon)

• “SQL Puzzle,” Boxes and Arrows (Frank Sweet Publishing)

• “DBMS/Report,” Systems Integration (Cahner Ziff) “Data Desk,”

Tech Specialist (R&D)

• “Data Points,” PC Techniques (Coriolis Group)

• “Celko on Software,” Computing (VNC Publications, UK )

• “SELECT * FROM Austin” (Array Publications, The Netherlands)

In addition, Mr. Celko was editor for the “Puzzles & Problems”

section of ABACUS (SpringerVerlag) and he ran the CASEFORUM

section 18, “Celko on SQL,” on CompuServe.