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Re: OT: MySQL Books

From: Walt Weaver <weaver1308_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:56:21 -0600
Message-ID: <f862c08b05050410566eae94d2@mail.gmail.com>


Oh, and in addition the MySQL Certification Study Guide, also by Paul Dubois (and a couple of other guys) is a surprisingly good learning guide.

--Walt

On 5/4/05, Walt Weaver <weaver1308_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> MySQL, 3rd Edition by Paul Dubois
> High Performance MySQL by Jeremy Zavodny

>=20

> I was at the MySQL Conference last month and can confirm that Ken
> Jacobs was indeed there.
>=20

> --Walt Weaver
> Bozeman, Montana
>=20

> On 5/4/05, MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > I need recommendations on the best book(s) for learning MySQL. There =
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> > are more and more folks using products which do not support Oracle. =
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> > Also the transactionless myISAM type database is very attractive to =3D
> > folks working on projects such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope =
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> > which should produce a petabyte of data daily. They won't be taking =
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> > data until 2012 so 1 PB per year might be routine by then. =3D20
> >
> > Nothing is settled and Oracle may be in the running. The system to =3D
> > collect the data needs to be in place by 2010. So even if MySQL is =3D
> > picked at first that could easily be changed. The head of the databas=
e =3D
> > committee for LSST showed me a business card he had gotten at last =3D
> > month's MySQL conference in Santa Clara, and asked if I recognized the =
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> > name on it. The name was Ken Jacobs.
> >
> > Ian MacGregor
> > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> > ian_at_slac.stanford.edu=3D20
> > --
> > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
> >

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