Jim Melton is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and representative for database standards at Oracle Corporation. Since 1986, he has been his company's representative to ANSI NCITS Technical Committee H2 for Database and a U.S. representative to ISO/IEC JTCI/SC32/WG3. He was the editor of SQL-92 and the recently published SQL: 1999 suite of standards, and is the author of several SQL books.
Alan Simon is a member of the data warehousing leadership team at Deloitte Consulting, a global professional services firm. His areas of specialization include enterprise data warehousing strategy and business intelligence for e-commerce and customer relationship environments. He is the author of 26 books, including Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for e-Commerce available from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.