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This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that have helped to make MySQL what it is today.
These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL
AB to work on the MySQL database software,
roughly in the order they started to work with us. Following each
developer is a small list of the tasks that the developer is
responsible for, or the accomplishments they have made. All
developers are involved in support.
Michael (Monty) Widenius
Lead developer and main author of the MySQL server (mysqld).
New functions for the string library.
Most of the mysys library.
The ISAM and MyISAM
libraries (B-tree index file handlers with index
compression and different record formats).
The HEAP library. A memory table system
with our superior full dynamic hashing. In use since 1981
and published around 1984.
The replace program (take a look at it, it's COOL!).
Connector/ODBC (MyODBC), the ODBC driver for Windows.
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL Server. And also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
Porting of mSQL tools like
msqlperl,
DBD/DBI, and
DB2mysql.
Most of crash-me and the foundation for
the MySQL benchmarks.
David Axmark
Initial main writer of the Reference Manual, including enhancements to texi2html.
Automatic Web site updating from the manual.
Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.
Licensing.
Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the
README is left. The rest ended up in
the manual.)
Lots of testing of new features.
Our in-house Free Software legal expert.
Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it right...).
Our original portability code (now more than 10 years
old). Nowadays only some parts of mysys
are left.
Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got that new feature to work.
Chief "Open Sourcerer" (MySQL community relations).
Jani Tolonen
mysqlimport
A lot of extensions to the command-line clients.
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
Sinisa Milivojevic (now in support)
Compression (with zlib) in the
client/server protocol.
Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer phase.
Multi-row INSERT
mysqldump -e option
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS
SELECT option
--max-user-connections=... option
net_read and
net_write_timeout
GRANT/REVOKE and
SHOW GRANTS FOR
New client/server protocol for 4.0
UNION in 4.0
Multiple-table
DELETE/UPDATE
Subqueries in the FROM clause (4.1).
User resources management
Initial developer of the MySQL++ C++
API and the MySQLGUI client.
Tonu Samuel (past developer)
VIO interface (the foundation for the encrypted client/server protocol).
MySQL Filesystem (a way to use MySQL databases as files and directories).
The CASE expression.
The MD5() and
COALESCE() functions.
RAID support for
MyISAM tables.
Sasha Pachev (past developer)
Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).
SHOW CREATE TABLE.
mysql-bench
Matt Wagner
MySQL test suite.
Webmaster (until 2002).
Miguel Solorzano (now in support)
Win32 development and release builds.
Windows NT server code.
WinMySQLAdmin
Timothy Smith (now in development)
Dynamic character sets support.
configure, RPMs and other parts of the build system.
Initial developer of libmysqld, the
embedded server.
Sergei Golubchik
Full-text search.
Added keys to the MERGE library.
Precision math.
Jeremy Cole (past developer)
Proofreading and editing this fine manual.
ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ....
UPDATE ... ORDER BY ....
DELETE ... ORDER BY ....
Indrek Siitan
Designing/programming of our Web interface.
Author of our newsletter management system.
Jorge del Conde (past developer)
MySQLCC (MySQL Control Center)
Win32 development
Initial implementation of the Web site portals.
Venu Anuganti (past developer)
MyODBC 3.51
New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).
Arjen Lentz (also handled community, 2004-2006; now works in Support)
Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual (2001-2004).
Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual (2002).
Alexander (Bar) Barkov, Alexey (Holyfoot) Botchkov, and Ramil Kalimullin
Spatial data (GIS) and R-Trees implementation for 4.1
Unicode and character sets for 4.1; documentation for same
Oleksandr (Sanja) Byelkin
Query cache in 4.0
Implementation of subqueries (4.1).
Implementation of views (5.0).
Aleksey (Walrus) Kishkin and Alexey (Ranger) Stroganov
Benchmarks design and analysis.
Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.
Zak Greant (past employee)
Open Source advocate, MySQL community relations.
Carsten Pedersen
The MySQL Certification program.
Lenz Grimmer
Production (build and release) engineering.
Peter Zaitsev
SHA1(),
AES_ENCRYPT() and
AES_DECRYPT() functions.
Debugging, cleaning up various features.
Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski
Support.
Debugging.
Per-Erik Martin
Lead developer for stored procedures (5.0).
Jim Winstead
Former lead Web developer.
Improving server, fixing bugs.
Mark Matthews
Connector/J driver (Java).
Peter Gulutzan
SQL standards compliance.
Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.
Character set documentation.
Guilhem Bichot
Replication, from MySQL version 4.0.
Fixed handling of exponents for
DECIMAL.
Author of mysql_tableinfo.
Backup (in 5.1).
Antony T. Curtis
Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.
Mikael Ronstrom
Much of the initial work on NDB Cluster until 2000. Roughly half the code base at that time. Transaction protocol, node recovery, system restart and restart code and parts of the API functionality.
Lead Architect, developer, debugger of NDB Cluster 1994-2004
Lots of optimizations
Jonas Oreland
On-line Backup
The automatic test environment of MySQL Cluster
Portability Library for NDB Cluster
Lots of other things
Pekka Nouisiainen
Ordered index implementation of MySQL Cluster
BLOB support in MySQL Cluster
Charset support in MySQL Cluster
Martin Skold
Unique index implementation of MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
Magnus Svensson
The test framework for MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
Tomas Ulin
Lots of work on configuration changes for simple installation and use of MySQL Cluster
Konstantin Osipov
Prepared statements.
Cursors.
Dmitri Lenev
Time zone support.
Triggers (in 5.0).
Although MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL
server and the MySQL manual, we wish
to recognize those who have made contributions of one kind or
another to the MySQL distribution. Contributors
are listed here, in somewhat random order:
Gianmassimo Vigazzola <qwerg@mbox.vol.it> or
<qwerg@tin.it>
The initial port to Win32/NT.
Per Eric Olsson
For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.
Irena Pancirov <irena@mail.yacc.it>
Win32 port with Borland compiler.
mysqlshutdown.exe and
mysqlwatch.exe
David J. Hughes
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the
predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with
mSQL, but found that it couldn't satisfy
our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our
application builder Unireg. mysqladmin and
mysql client are programs that were largely
influenced by their mSQL counterparts. We
have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a
superset of mSQL. Many of the API's ideas
are borrowed from mSQL to make it easy to
port free mSQL programs to the MySQL API.
The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from
mSQL. Two files in the distribution
(client/insert_test.c and
client/select_test.c) are based on the
corresponding (non-copyrighted) files in the
mSQL distribution, but are modified as
examples showing the changes necessary to convert code from
mSQL to MySQL Server.
(mSQL is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
Patrick Lynch
For helping us acquire http://www.mysql.com/.
Fred Lindberg
For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.
Igor Romanenko <igor@frog.kiev.ua>
mysqldump (previously
msqldump, but ported and enhanced by
Monty).
Yuri Dario
For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.
Tim Bunce
Author of mysqlhotcopy.
Zarko Mocnik <zarko.mocnik@dem.si>
Sorting for Slovenian language.
"TAMITO" <tommy@valley.ne.jp>
The _MB character set macros and the ujis
and sjis character sets.
Joshua Chamas <joshua@chamas.com>
Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and answering on the MySQL mailing list.
Yves Carlier <Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be>
mysqlaccess, a program to show the access rights for a user.
Rhys Jones <rhys@wales.com> (And GWE Technologies
Limited)
For one of the early JDBC drivers.
Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU <X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk>
Further development of one of the early JDBC drivers and other MySQL-related Java tools.
James Cooper <pixel@organic.com>
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
Rick Mehalick <Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com>
For xmysql, a graphical X client for MySQL
Server.
Doug Sisk <sisk@wix.com>
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.
Diemand Alexander V. <axeld@vial.ethz.ch>
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.
Antoni Pamies Olive <toni@readysoft.es>
For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC.
Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>
For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21.
David Sacerdote <davids@secnet.com>
Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
Wei-Jou Chen <jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw>
Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
Wei He <hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn>
A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.cz>
Czech sorting order.
Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>
FROM_UNIXTIME() time formatting,
ENCRYPT() functions, and
bison advisor. Active mailing list member.
Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to
DBI/DBD. Have been of
great help with crash-me and running
benchmarks. Some new date functions. The
mysql_setpermission script.
Alexis Mikhailov <root@medinf.chuvashia.su>
User-defined functions (UDFs); CREATE
FUNCTION and DROP FUNCTION.
Andreas F. Bobak <bobak@relog.ch>
The AGGREGATE extension to user-defined
functions.
Ross Wakelin <R.Wakelin@march.co.uk>
Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
Jethro Wright III <jetman@li.net>
The libmysql.dll library.
James Pereria <jpereira@iafrica.com>
Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers.
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
Martin Ramsch <m.ramsch@computer.org>
Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
Steve Harvey
For making mysqlaccess more secure.
Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited
http://www.pspl.co.in/konark/. Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server.
Albert Chin-A-Young.
Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support.
John Birrell
Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2.
Benjamin Pflugmann
Extended MERGE tables to handle
INSERTS. Active member on the MySQL mailing
lists.
Jocelyn Fournier
Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).
Marc Liyanage
Maintaining the Mac OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback on how to create Mac OS X PKGs.
Robert Rutherford
Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.
Previous developers of NDB Cluster
Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided much of the architectural foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time.
Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson,
Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim
Bonis, Elmar Haneke, <jehamby@lightside>,
<psmith@BayNetworks.com>,
<duane@connect.com.au>, Ted Deppner
<ted@psyber.com>, Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.
And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL mailing lists:
Daniel Koch <dkoch@amcity.com>
Irix setup.
Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>
Benchmark questions.
Tim Sailer <tps@users.buoy.com>
DBD::mysql questions.
Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
SCO-related questions.
Richard Mehalick <RM186061@shellus.com>
xmysql-related questions and basic
installation questions.
Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>
Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.
Francesc Guasch <frankie@citel.upc.es>
General questions.
Jonathan J Smith <jsmith@wtp.net>
Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might need some work.
David Sklar <sklar@student.net>
Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
Alistair MacDonald <A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk>
Is flexible and can handle Linux and perhaps HP-UX. Tries to get users to use mysqlbug.
John Lyon <jlyon@imag.net>
Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using
either .rpm files or compiling from
source.
Lorvid Ltd. <lorvid@WOLFENET.com>
Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
Patrick Sherrill <patrick@coconet.com>
ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
Randy Harmon <rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com>
DBD, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.
The following people have helped us with writing the MySQL documentation and translating the documentation or error messages in MySQL.
Paul DuBois
Ongoing help with making this manual correct and understandable. That includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English into English as other people know it.
Kim Aldale
Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into English.
Michael J. Miller Jr.
<mke@terrapin.turbolift.com>
For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language fixes for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long time ago).
Yan Cailin
First translator of the MySQL Reference Manual into simplified Chinese in early 2000 on which the Big5 and HK coded (http://mysql.hitstar.com/) versions were based. Personal home page at linuxdb.yeah.net.
Jay Flaherty <fty@mediapulse.com>
Big parts of the Perl
DBI/DBD section in the
manual.
Paul Southworth <pauls@etext.org>, Ray Loyzaga
<yar@cs.su.oz.au>
Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
Therrien Gilbert <gilbert@ican.net>, Jean-Marc
Pouyot <jmp@scalaire.fr>
French error messages.
Petr Snajdr, <snajdr@pvt.net>
Czech error messages.
Jaroslaw Lewandowski <jotel@itnet.com.pl>
Polish error messages.
Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
Spanish error messages.
Roy-Magne Mo <rmo@www.hivolda.no>
Norwegian error messages and testing of MySQL 3.21.xx.
Timur I. Bakeyev <root@timur.tatarstan.ru>
Russian error messages.
<brenno@dewinter.com> & Filippo Grassilli
<phil@hyppo.com>
Italian error messages.
Dirk Munzinger <dirk@trinity.saar.de>
German error messages.
Billik Stefan <billik@sun.uniag.sk>
Slovak error messages.
Stefan Saroiu <tzoompy@cs.washington.edu>
Romanian error messages.
Peter Feher
Hungarian error messages.
Roberto M. Serqueira
Portuguese error messages.
Carsten H. Pedersen
Danish error messages.
Arjen Lentz
Dutch error messages, completing earlier partial translation (also work on consistency and spelling).
The following is a list of the creators of the libraries we have included with the MySQL server source to make it easy to compile and install MySQL. We are very thankfully to all individuals that have created these and it has made our life much easier.
Fred Fish
For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a number of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional options).
Richard A. O'Keefe
For his public domain string library.
Henry Spencer
For his regex library, used in WHERE column REGEXP
regexp.
Chris Provenzano
Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product
includes software developed by Chris Provenzano, the
University of California, Berkeley, and contributors. We are
currently using version 1_60_beta6 patched by Monty (see
mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql).
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
For the zlib library (used on MySQL on Windows).
Bjorn Benson
For his safe_malloc (memory checker) package which is used in
when you configure MySQL with --debug.
Free Software Foundation
The readline library (used by the
mysql command-line client).
The NetBSD foundation
The libedit package (optionally used by the
mysql command-line client).
The following is a list of creators/maintainers of some of the most important API/packages/applications that a lot of people use with MySQL.
We can't list every possible package here because the list would then be way to hard to maintain. For other packages, please refer to the software portal at http://solutions.mysql.com/software/.
Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
For the DBD (Perl) interface.
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.
Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>
For maintaining the Perl DBD::mysql module.
Eugene Chan <eugene@acenet.com.sg>
For porting PHP for MySQL Server.
Georg Richter
MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting. New PHP 5.0
mysqli extension (API) for use with MySQL
4.1 and up.
Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>
For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).
The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create MySQL. We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them as without these we could not have made MySQL what it is today.
Free Software Foundation
From whom we got an excellent compiler
(gcc), an excellent debugger
(gdb and the libc
library (from which we have borrowed
strto.c to get some code working in
Linux).
Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at MySQL AB.
Julian Seward
Author of valgrind, an excellent memory
checker tool that has helped us find a lot of otherwise hard
to find bugs in MySQL.
Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller
For DDD (The Data Display Debugger) which
is an excellent graphical front end to
gdb).
Although MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL
server and the MySQL manual, we wish
to recognize the following companies, which helped us finance the
development of the MySQL server, such as by
paying us for developing a new feature or giving us hardware for
development of the MySQL server.
VA Linux / Andover.net
Funded replication.
NuSphere
Editing of the MySQL manual.
Stork Design studio
The MySQL Web site in use between 1998-2000.
Intel
Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.
Compaq
Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha.
SWSoft
Development on the embedded mysqld version.
FutureQuest
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