MySQL Troubleshooting

Acknowledgments

I want to say thank you to the people without whose help this book couldn’t happen.

For a start, this includes my editor, Andy Oram, who did a great job making my English readable and who showed me gaps and places where I had not described information in enough detail. He also gave me insight into how prepared my readers would be, prompting me to add explanations for beginners and to remove trivial things known by everyone.

I also want to thank the whole MySQL Support Team. These folks share their expertise and support with every member of the team, and I learned a lot from them. I won’t put names here, because I want to say “thank you” to all of the people with whom I’ve worked since joining in 2006, even those who have left and moved to server development or another company.

Thanks to Charles Bell, who helped me to start this book. He also did a review of the book and suggested a lot of improvements. Charles works in the MySQL Replication and Backup Team at Oracle and is the author of two books about MySQL. Therefore, his suggestions, both for content and style, were very helpful.

I would also like to thank the people who reviewed the book:

• Shane Bester, my colleague from the MySQL Support Group, who reviewed the part devoted to his Gypsy program and suggested how to improve the example.

• Alexander (Salle) Keremedarski, who reviewed the whole book and sent me a lot of great suggestions. Salle has provided MySQL support since its very early days, starting in the MySQL ...