Robert D. Schneider has more than 15 years of experience developing and delivering sophisticated software solutions worldwide. He has provided database optimization, distributed computing, and other technical expertise to a wide variety of enterprises in the financial, technology, and government sectors. Clients have included Chase Manhattan Bank, VISA, HP, SWIFT, and the governments of the United States, Brazil, and Malaysia. He is the author of Optimizing Informix Applications, Microsoft SQL Server: Planning and Building a High Performance Database, and MySQL Database Design and Tuning. He has also written numerous articles on technical and professional services topics. He can be reached at
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