How good is the new High Performance MySQL going to be?
Well, if my perfectionist nature were allowed to run free, and if Peter et al’s encyclopedic knowledge were somehow all transferred to paper, the second edition of High Performance MySQL would end up being the perfect encyclopedia of MySQL performance. But as it is, you’re apparently going to have to settle for “very good.” This quote by Sheeri Kritzer Cabral, one of our tech reviewers, really made my day:
I gotta hand it to Peter, Vadim, Arjen, and Baron. They know how to write a book!
And now I must begin a solid weekend of revisions… wish me luck!
When is the book going to be available?
Good luck with the revisions!
Alex Bay
15 Dec 07 at 11:45 am
I don’t know if there’s a firm date it’ll be on the shelf, but it has to go to production (i.e. out of our hands) in February. The goal is to have it available before the MySQL conference in April. As Andy Oram, the editor, says: if we miss that, we’ve messed up.
Xaprb
15 Dec 07 at 11:48 am
> if we miss that, we’ve messed up
That’s rather extreme! I would say, if you’ve missed it you have more time to add more stuff, which I think would be great!
Nevertheless, I’m looking forward and I hope you guys will finish in February! Keep up the good work!
David Linsin
16 Dec 07 at 5:12 am
w00t! I’ve been the technical editor on other books where the language wasn’t consistent (you could tell it was written by different authors), the examples were awful (and I rewrote some of them because they were just bad examples), etc. So reading your stuff was a breath of fresh air! (I spent 15 hours reviewing the 4 chapters)
Sheeri Cabral
16 Dec 07 at 9:23 pm
is it possible to know an estimate as to when the 2nd edition will be tentatively released?
dchenning
7 Jan 08 at 5:58 pm
See my comments above — the deadline is still looking good!
Xaprb
8 Jan 08 at 5:13 pm