From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed May 4 13:17:39 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j44IHdxu004797 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 13:17:39 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j44IHZ4Z004784 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 13:17:36 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D9F7E18FFDD; Wed, 4 May 2005 11:20:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01761-07; Wed, 4 May 2005 11:20:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 61E6318FDA9; Wed, 4 May 2005 11:20:37 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: OT: MySQL Books Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:18:33 -0700 Message-ID: <7F24308CD176594B8F14969D10C02C6C3B7FB8@exch-mail2.win.slac.stanford.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: OT: MySQL Books Thread-Index: AcVQxOrCSSsTLFVgRLCK5Qd1fiQM8A== From: "MacGregor, Ian A." To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2005 16:18:33.0504 (UTC) FILETIME=[EAEB7A00:01C550C4] X-archive-position: 19331 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: ian@slac.stanford.edu Precedence: normal Reply-To: ian@slac.stanford.edu X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 I need recommendations on the best book(s) for learning MySQL. There = are more and more folks using products which do not support Oracle. = Also the transactionless myISAM type database is very attractive to = folks working on projects such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope = which should produce a petabyte of data daily. They won't be taking = data until 2012 so 1 PB per year might be routine by then. =20 Nothing is settled and Oracle may be in the running. The system to = collect the data needs to be in place by 2010. So even if MySQL is = picked at first that could easily be changed. The head of the database = committee for LSST showed me a business card he had gotten at last = month's MySQL conference in Santa Clara, and asked if I recognized the = name on it. The name was Ken Jacobs. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ian@slac.stanford.edu=20 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l