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High Performance MySQL is here!

The book, that is. My dog is already studying it. You should buy a few copies for yourself, your family, and all your pets.

High Performance MySQL is here!

Written by Xaprb

June 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Posted in High Performance MySQL, SQL

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Baron,
congratulations!

One question, though. In your previous posts, you talked about four authors. Now in the cover I see six names.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101718/cover.html
What’s the story?

Giuseppe

Giuseppe Maxia

20 Jun 08 at 3:35 pm
Ah — authors from the first edition are listed as authors on the second. I don’t know if there’s ever a point when an author is removed; probably not, I guess.

Xaprb

20 Jun 08 at 3:40 pm
Congratulations, Baron. I have added the book to my favorites in Safari and can’t wait to start reading it.
Frank

Frank

20 Jun 08 at 4:53 pm
Just wondering how ‘different’ this book is from the 1st edition otherwise might not be worth getting it.

Is it a total re-write of the book or is it just some ‘additions’ to the 1st edition to make it work on MySQL 5.0 and above?

bichonfrise74

20 Jun 08 at 7:12 pm
What an excellent question! ;-) Actually, it’s a complete rewrite and has over 2x as many pages.

Xaprb

20 Jun 08 at 8:25 pm
Pre-ordered this months ago. It finally got delivered on Friday and I have not put it down since. Fantastic work. Thank you.

Matt

21 Jun 08 at 11:05 pm
You got it on Friday? I didn’t get my copy overnighted direct from the publisher till Friday, and AFAIK the booksellers won’t get it in stock for a while (I could be wrong, that would be great!). Are you sure you have the second edition? It should say so on the front cover.

Assuming you have the 2nd edition, thanks for the compliment :-)

Xaprb

21 Jun 08 at 11:13 pm
Wow, got kinda scared – not to mention felt pretty stupid – there for a bit. Somebody somewhere (Amazon) must think I am special:

http://i28.tinypic.com/15zniug.png
http://i32.tinypic.com/2i222qx.jpg

I guess Amazon could be trying to capitalize off all the hype by trying to sell knock-off 2nd editions. I’ve been re-reading a lot of sections so I’m only on chap 4 so as far as I know the rest of the book could be filled with Lorem Ipsum

Matt

22 Jun 08 at 8:47 am
That’s the real thing.

Xaprb

22 Jun 08 at 9:06 am
Woohoo, I’m not losing my mind.

You are certainly welcome for the compliment but I should be the one thanking you – as well as the other authors – for writing such a phenomenal book. It has just the right amount of “you have no business saying the word database if you do not know this already but we’ll hold your hand anyway” mixed with very in-depth descriptions of all aspects of databases.

Following your advice from the above post there is a good chance several folks on my team will find copies of this on their desk this week.

Ch 4 – 14 are calling my name now though.

Matt

22 Jun 08 at 9:24 am
I think that picture of the dog reading the book is a fake! I think you altered the image and added the book – what kind of dog would read a book about MySQL? It would have to be a genius dog, and from the expression in his eyes…

No doubt you’re paying him to pose? I think he should also get a cut of the royalties.

Nathaniel

22 Jun 08 at 12:38 pm
What can I say? He’s a smart dog. Many’s the time when I’ve forgotten something and he tells me the answer. “Carbon, I’ve forgotten — do I want SQL_BUFFER_RESULT or SQL_BIG_RESULT?”

The answer always ends with “… and you need to give me food,” but that’s a small price to pay for quality help.

Xaprb

22 Jun 08 at 12:51 pm
Not fair!
Amazon.co.uk is still hasn’t got the book. I preordered weeks ago :-(

Gordan

22 Jun 08 at 7:30 pm
I looked at Amazon.com again today and now they’re saying it’ll be in stock in July. Yesterday and the day before they listed it as in stock, and obviously they shipped some copies. Have they really sold out in 2 days?

Xaprb

22 Jun 08 at 7:53 pm
I know consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…..no disrespect intended Mr. Gehrig.

I guess there is only one thing a self-respecting FOSS person can do:

“Chap 1 – MySQL’s archi……”

Oh right, prolly a bad idea to do that here :) Well if the ps3 and 360 launches taught me anything it was this: bidding starts at $1,000 USD or best offer (actually I should probably ask for Euros).

I don’t think it should come as any surprise that it sold out. I actually assumed the earliest I would get mine was mid-July. I certainly hope for your sake it continues to be sold out as everyone involved in this deserves it.

Matt

22 Jun 08 at 8:20 pm
BTW, there’s a sample chapter (one of the more substantial chapters, not just a cheesy sample) and other stuff (TOC, index) at http://www.highperfmysql.com/

Xaprb

22 Jun 08 at 8:32 pm
Baron,

I got word from an O’Reilly rep that all authors still should be receiving free Safari accounts. Check out the update to my recent post –> http://www.protocolostomy.com/2008/06/20/oreilly-give-your-authors-safari-access/

And see the comments for the rep’s feedback.

Brian K. Jones

23 Jun 08 at 11:56 am
Thanks Brian. I got an email from them about it. Just for the record, I don’t think this was intentional that they didn’t give us Safari accounts — I think it was just a matter of something falling through the cracks and not being noticed.

Xaprb

23 Jun 08 at 12:05 pm
MMM I get a book autographed by the authors and the Baron’s dog?

Congratulation on the book.

Ernesto Vargas

24 Jun 08 at 1:37 am
If you’re in the San Francisco area, check out Vadim and Peter’s book signing at Velocity! Unfortunately the dog sends his regrets.

Xaprb

24 Jun 08 at 7:27 am
Still no sign of the book over at amazon.co.uk :-( Life sucks!

Gordan

25 Jun 08 at 12:03 pm
Received my copy yesterday. I’m only through the first chapter, but I am already pleased with it. As a web developer trying to make his way toward being a proper DBA, just the high level overview of locking schemes and the specific benefits of the major storage engines is leaps and bounds above my attempts to garner the same information by slogging through the manual.

(Don’t get me wrong, the MySQL manual is very well written, and great for telling you how to do something if you know exactly what you want to do… but less great for helping you decide which thing to do when you have options. Such is the lot of most purely technical writing.)

Joe Izenman

1 Jul 08 at 1:27 pm
Baron, do you perhaps have any inf regarding book availability n amazon.co.uk. They still don’t have it :-(
thanks

Gordan

2 Jul 08 at 9:04 am
Sorry, I don’t know anything about it. Hopefully they and O’Reilly will sort out any supply/demand issues soon!

Xaprb

2 Jul 08 at 9:18 am
Amazon finally shipped this to Canada yesterday… only had a chance to flip through the pages, but I can’t wait to dive in to some of the later chapters!

Excellent work, you guys!

fenway

8 Jul 08 at 8:55 am
amazon.co.uk supposedly got them a few days ago too

Gordan

8 Jul 08 at 8:58 am
Amazon.co.uk delivered my pre-order yesterday.

James

13 Jul 08 at 11:10 am
hi do you feel that mysql multireplication is fine for 7 databases with out any problem?

doll

8 Aug 08 at 3:28 am