June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 46m
English
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Appendix C. Credits
This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters who have helped to make MySQL what it is today.
Developers at MySQL AB
These are the developers who are or have been employed by MySQL AB to work on the MySQL database software, roughly in the order they started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of the tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments they have made.
- Michael (Monty) Widenius
Has written the following parts of the MySQL database software:
All the main code in mysqld.
New functions for the string library.
Most of the mysys library.
The ISAM and MyISAM libraries (B-tree index file handlers with index compression and different record formats).
The HEAP library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
The replace program (take a look at it, it’s COOL!).
MyODBC, the ODBC driver for Windows 95.
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL server. And also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
Porting of mSQL tools like msqlperl, DBD/DBI, and DB2mysql.
Most of crash-me and the foundation for the MySQL benchmarks.
- David Axmark
Coordinator and initial main writer of the Reference Manual, including enhancements to texi2html.
Automatic web site updating from the manual.
Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.
Licensing.
Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the
READMEis left. The rest ended up in the manual.) ...
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