Bill Karwin was born in Santa Cruz, California, and has never found a reason to leave. He received a degree in Computer & Information Science from the University of California, and has worked for over twenty years as a software engineer, consultant, and manager. Bill has specialized in relational databases, including MySQL, InterBase, and many others. He has answered thousands of questions from software developers online, and in his book, "SQL Antipatterns Volume 1: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming," Bill has collected some of the most repeated blunders.
