MySQL Reference Manual

Contributors to MySQL

While MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL server and the MySQL manual, we wish to recognise those who have made contributions of one kind or another to the MySQL distribution. Contributors are listed here, in somewhat random order:

Paul DuBois

Help with making the Reference Manual correct and understandable. That includes rewriting Monty’s and David’s attempts at English into English as other people know it.

Gianmassimo Vigazzola [e-mail] or [e-mail]

The initial port to Win32/NT.

Kim Aldale

Helped to rewrite Monty’s and David’s early attempts at English into English.

Per Eric Olsson

For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.

Irena Pancirov [e-mail]

Win32 port with Borland compiler. mysqlshutdown.exe and mysqlwatch.exe.

David J. Hughes

For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with mSQL, but found that it couldn’t satisfy our purposes. So instead we wrote an SQL interface to our application builder Unireg. mysqladmin and mysql client are programs that were largely influenced by their mSQL counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of mSQL. Many of the API’s ideas are borrowed from mSQL to make it easy to port free mSQL programs to the MySQL API. The MySQL software doesn’t contain any code from mSQL. Two files in the distribution (client/insert_test.c and client/select_test.c) are based on the corresponding ...