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ⓘ About Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion is an Auckland born Australian writer, data modeler, playwright, consultancy manager, and author. He is famous for writing contemporary, fiction, humor, and comedy stories. Simsion has successfully written the Don Tillman book series, which has reached out to a large number of readers throughout the world. Prior to the beginning of his writing career, he used to work as a consultant of information systems in an IT company. While working in that job, he wrote a few papers on data modeling and two books. In 1982, Simsion established his own consultancy business called Simsion Bowles & Associates that had grown to a strength of over 70 staff, but had to sell it in 1999.
All Book Series by Graeme Simsion
The Glass House
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2024 Co-authored · Anne Buist
The General Hospital
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2026 Co-authored · Anne Buist
Don Tillman’s Standardized Meal System
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2019
Database Tuning
Series opener · book 1 of 52 · published 1992 Anthology · Dennis E. Shasha,Philippe Bonnet
Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications
Book 2 of 52 · published 1992 Anthology · Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Building an Object-Oriented Database System
Book 3 of 52 · published 1992 Anthology · François Bancilhon,Claude Delobel,Paris Kanellakis
Transaction Processing
Book 4 of 52 · published 1992 Anthology · JimGray,Andreas Reuter
Data Modeling Essentials
Book 5 of 52 · published 1992 Co-authored · Graham Witt
Atomic Transactions
Book 6 of 52 · published 1993 Anthology · Nancy A. Lynch,Michael Merritt,William E. Weihl,Alan Fekete
Database
Book 7 of 52 · published 1994 Anthology · Patrick O'Neil,Elizabeth O'Neil
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Book 8 of 52 · published 1995 Anthology · Joe Celko
Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers
Book 10 of 52 · published 1997 Anthology · Joe Celko
Predictive Data Mining
Book 11 of 52 · published 1997 Anthology · Sholom M. Weiss,Nitin Indurkhya
A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database
Book 12 of 52 · published 1998 Anthology · Don Chamberlin
Database Modeling and Design: 3rd Edition
Book 13 of 52 · published 1998 Anthology · Toby J. Teorey
Database Modeling and Design: 5th Edition
Book 14 of 52 · published 1998 Anthology · Toby J. Teorey,Sam S. Lightstone,Tom Nadeau,H. V. Jagadish
Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems
Book 15 of 52 · published 1998 Anthology · Ahmed Elmagarmid,Marek Rusinkiewicz,Amit Sheth
Database Design for Smarties
Book 16 of 52 · published 1999 Anthology · Robert J. Muller
Data Mining
Book 17 of 52 · published 1999 Anthology · Ian H. Witten,Mark A. Hall,Eibe Frank,Christopher J. Pal
Data on the Web
Book 18 of 52 · published 1999 Anthology · Serge Abiteboul,Peter Buneman,Dan Suciu
TCP/IP Sockets in C
Book 19 of 52 · published 2000 Anthology · Michael J. Donahoo,Kenneth L. Calvert
The Object Data Standard
Book 20 of 52 · published 2000 Anthology · David Jordan,Fernando Velez,R.G. Cattell,Douglas K. Barry,Mark Berler,Jeff Eastman,Conn Russell,Olaf Schadow,Torsten Stanienda
Understanding SQL and Java Together
Book 21 of 52 · published 2000 Anthology · Jim Melton,Andrew Eisenberg
Data Mining, Southeast Asia Edition
Book 22 of 52 · published 2000 Anthology · Jiawei Han
Component Database Systems
Book 23 of 52 · published 2000 Anthology · Klaus R. Dittrich,Andreas Geppert
TCP/IP Sockets in Java
Book 24 of 52 · published 2001 Anthology · Michael J. Donahoo,Kenneth L. Calvert
Information Modeling and Relational Databases
Book 25 of 52 · published 2001 Anthology · Tony Morgan,Terry Halpin
Spatial Databases
Book 26 of 52 · published 2001 Anthology · Philippe Rigaux,Michel Scholl,Agnes Voisard
Multicast Sockets
Book 29 of 52 · published 2002 Anthology · David Makofske,Kevin Almeroth
Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications
Book 30 of 52 · published 2002 Anthology · Stefano Ceri,Piero Fraternali,Aldo Bongio,Marco Brambilla,Sara Comai,Maristella Matera
Business Modeling and Data Mining
Book 32 of 52 · published 2003 Anthology · Dorian Pyle
Database Modeling with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects
Book 36 of 52 · published 2003 Anthology · Terry Halpin,Ken Evans,Pat Hallock,Bill MacLean
How to Build a Business Rules Engine
Book 38 of 52 · published 2003 Anthology · Malcolm Chisholm
Java Cryptography Extensions
Book 39 of 52 · published 2004 Anthology · Jason Weiss
TCP/IP Sockets in C#
Book 40 of 52 · published 2004 Anthology · Michael J. Donahoo,Kenneth L. Calvert,David Makofske
Location-Based Services
Book 41 of 52 · published 2004 Anthology · Agnes Voisard,Jochen Schiller
Multi-Tier Application Programming with PHP
Book 42 of 52 · published 2004 Anthology · David Wall
Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration
Book 43 of 52 · published 2005 Anthology · Earl Cox
SQL
Book 44 of 52 · published 2005 Anthology · Gregory D. Speegle,Michael J. Donahoo
Moving Objects Databases
Book 45 of 52 · published 2005 Anthology · Ralf Hartmut Güting,Markus Schneider
Querying XML
Book 46 of 52 · published 2006 Anthology · Jim Melton,Stephen Buxton
Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL
Book 48 of 52 · published 2006 Anthology · Joe Celko
Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets
Book 49 of 52 · published 2008 Anthology · Joe Celko
Physical Database Design
Book 50 of 52 · published 2010 Anthology · Toby J. Teorey,Sam S. Lightstone,Tom Nadeau
Java Data Mining
Book 51 of 52 · published 2010 Anthology · Mark F. Hornick,Erik Marcade,Sunil Venkayala
Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS
Latest in the series · book 52 of 52 · published 2010 Anthology · Mamdouh Refaat
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Graeme Simsion?
Graeme Simsion is an Auckland born Australian writer, data modeler, playwright, consultancy manager, and author. He is famous for writing contemporary, fiction, humor, and comedy stories. Simsion has successfully written the Don Tillman book series, which has reached out to a large number of readers throughout the world.
Which Graeme Simsion series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Morgan Kaufmann in Data Management Systems series, the earliest of Graeme Simsion's multi-book series: it opens with Database Tuning (1992) and runs to 52 books across 1992–2010, ending with Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS (2010). Graeme Simsion's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Graeme Simsion written?
Graeme Simsion has 64 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1992 and 2026. 60 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being The Morgan Kaufmann in Data Management Systems series with 52 books — and 4 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Graeme Simsion's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Graeme Simsion's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Morgan Kaufmann in Data Management Systems (1992–2010, 52 books), Don Tillman (2013–2019, 3 books) and Two Steps (2017–2021, 2 books), plus 1 more.
How are Graeme Simsion's books organised into series?
This guide splits Graeme Simsion's 64 books into 4 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Morgan Kaufmann in Data Management Systems (52 books, 1992–2010); Don Tillman (3 books, 2013–2019); Menzies Mental Health (3 books, 2024–2026); Two Steps (2 books, 2017–2021).