About the Author

Joseph D. Booth has been programming since 1981 in a variety of languages, including BASIC, Clipper, FoxPro, Delphi, Classic ASP, Visual Basic, Visual C#, and the .NET Framework. He has also worked in various database platforms, including mySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. 

He is the author of 11 Syncfusion Succinctly titles including Accounting Succinctly, Regular Expressions Succinctly, and SQL Server Metadata Succinctly, as well as six books on Clipper and FoxPro programming, network programming, and client/server development with Delphi. His latest project is a SQL analysis tool called SQL Sleuth.

Joe has worked for a number of companies including Sperry Univac, MCI-WorldCom, Ronin, Harris Interactive, Thomas Jefferson University, People Metrics, and Investor Force. He is one of the primary authors of Results for Research (market research software), PEPSys (industrial distribution software), and a key contributor to AccuBuild (accounting software for the construction industry). 

He has a background in accounting, having worked as a controller for several years in the industrial distribution field, but his real passion is computer programming. In his spare time, Joe is an avid tennis player, practices yoga and martial arts, and spends as much time as possible with his grandkids, Blaire and Kaia.