Home Accessibility Courses Twitter The Mouth Facebook Resources Site Map About Us Contact
 
For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
MySQL - nuggets

I had great pleasure in listening to David Axmark and Monty Widenius talking about MySQL this morning. When I take up a new subject, I always feel a little apprehensive - am I presenting it as its authors intended? Who are the authors anyway - are they nice, sensible guys? Great news - Monty and David pass with flying colours on both counts and I'm even more of a protagonist for MySQL now that I was six hours ago. Full posts in the solution centre (see under MySQL) ... here are some nuggets ...

* It takes 3 days to test each new release of MySQL as all the releases are test-installed on a build farm to ensure it's RIGHT.

* "Inspection study shows code quality of MySQL is 6 times better than that of comparable proprietary code". This means that (for example) a recent decision as to whether to go for another Gamma release of 4.1 or to go production was obvious - it stayed Gamma.

* It's called MySQL after Monty Widenius's daughter My, who doesn't like the picture Monty uses of her during presentations.

* The "LIMIT 10,10" syntax extension was proposed by Rasmus Lerdorf, the guy who originated PHP.

(written 2004-10-11, updated 2008-05-10)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
S151 - Introduction to SQL and MySQL
  [85] Present and future MySQL - (2004-10-12)
  [175] Worthwhile - (2005-01-11)
  [382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL - (2005-07-18)
  [444] Database or Progamming - which to learn first? - (2005-09-13)
  [515] MySQL - an FAQ - (2005-12-03)
  [591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL - (2006-02-04)
  [691] Testing you Perl / PHP / MySQL / Tcl knowledge - (2006-04-19)
  [918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08)
  [924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl - (2006-11-13)
  [2134] Oracle take over Sun who had taken over MySQL - (2009-04-21)
  [2561] The future of MySQL - (2010-01-03)
  [2567] Extra MySQL course dates (2 day course, UK) - (2010-01-08)
  [2786] Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example - (2010-05-29)
  [3269] Files or Databases? MySQL, SQLite, or Oracle? - (2011-04-28)
  [3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose? - (2012-11-20)


Back to
Geek Cruising
Previous and next
or
Horse's mouth home
Forward to
Present and future MySQL
Some other Articles
Getting the right level of trainer
Too sittings
Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross
MySQL - nuggets
Geek Cruising
Keeping up to date
Caf[83][c2]á keyboards
OO - real benefits
Last day of Java
4759 posts, page by page
Link to page ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 at 50 posts per page


This is a page archived from The Horse's Mouth at http://www.wellho.net/horse/ - the diary and writings of Graham Ellis. Every attempt was made to provide current information at the time the page was written, but things do move forward in our business - new software releases, price changes, new techniques. Please check back via our main site for current courses, prices, versions, etc - any mention of a price in "The Horse's Mouth" cannot be taken as an offer to supply at that price.

Link to Ezine home page (for reading).
Link to Blogging home page (to add comments).

You can Add a comment or ranking to this page

© WELL HOUSE CONSULTANTS LTD., 2024: 48 Spa Road • Melksham, Wiltshire • United Kingdom • SN12 7NY
PH: 01144 1225 708225 • EMAIL: info@wellho.net • WEB: http://www.wellho.net • SKYPE: wellho

PAGE: http://www.wellho.net/mouth/84_.html • PAGE BUILT: Sun Oct 11 16:07:41 2020 • BUILD SYSTEM: JelliaJamb