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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I need recommendations on the best book(s) for learning MySQL. There = =3D > > are more and more folks using products which do not support Oracle. = =3D > > Also the transactionless myISAM type database is very attractive to =3D > > folks working on projects such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope = =3D > > which should produce a petabyte of data daily. They won't be taking = =3D > > 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 = =3D > > name on it. The name was Ken Jacobs. > > > > Ian MacGregor > > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > > ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20 > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l