Dr. Sikha Bagui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. She teaches a variety of computer science courses and database courses, and her research areas are database design, data mining, pattern recognition, and statistical computing. Dr. Bagui has published many journal articles and co-authored several books with Dr. Earp. Books co-authored with Dr. Earp are Learning SQL: A Step-by-Step Guide using Oracle and Learning SQL: A Step-by-Step Guide using Access, both published by Addison Wesley; Database Design Using ER Diagrams, published by CRC Press, and Advanced SQL Functions in Oracle 10g, published by Wordware Publishing.

Dr. Richard Walsh Earp is the former Chair of and a former Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. He also served at Dean of the College of Science and Technology at that institution. He has taught a variety of computer science courses, including database systems and advanced database systems. Dr. Earp has authored and co-authored several papers and has co-authored several books with Dr. Bagui. Dr. Earp was also an instructor with Learning Tree International for several years and worked for Computer Sciences Corporation at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as a database consultant after his retirement from academia.