<link href="core.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" name="generator"/><link href="index.html" rel="up" title="Learning MySQL and MariaDB"/><link href="index.html" rel="prev" title="Learning MySQL and MariaDB"/><link href="upgrade_offer_front.html" rel="next" title="Special Upgrade Offer"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:a44cd29e-1ffd-4f85-8813-e5e529384a52" name="Adept.expected.resource"/></head><body><section class="preface" epub:type="preface" id="id906234"><div class="titlepage"/><p>To Fortunata Serio, my mother, who gave me life, taught me to be kind and loving, and to speak—which is a precursor to being a writer.</p><p>And to Andrew Gambos, who had the thankless job of being my stepfather, but taught me how to assert myself in life and in my career.</p></section></body></html>