High Performance MySQL is going to press, again
Apparently High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition is selling quite well — I’m not sure exactly how well — because we’re preparing for a second printing. This makes me very happy. I don’t think they anticipated going back to the press for quite some time.
The book fluctuates between sales rank 1000 and 2000 on Amazon during the day, and has reached as high as 600 or so. This is just phenomenal. The O’Reilly team was psyched when it broke 5000, and so was I — but now we’ve stayed under 2000 for a long time (except when Amazon sold out of it). Frankly I’d have thought that for a niche-market book like this, we’d have been in the 10,000 range or something like that.
Clearly we (the authors, editors, publisher, etc) have done something right! This is a great feeling.
Thanks for sending errata, by the way. I have just completed proofreading the whole book myself, and found a number of things that may be fixed in the second printing. I think certain types of errors won’t be fixed, but the important ones certainly will be.
Congrats! I’m still teetering on the verge of buying the book. I’m facing the prospect of having to use MS SQL at work and so I’m not sure that the ultra-detailed MySQL info will help me much. But I have gotten a lot out of the more general SQL stuff posted here.
Who am I kidding, I have lousy willpower. I’ll probably get the book before the end of the week :P
DanF
15 Jul 08 at 11:14 pm
I always do what The Voices tell me to, personally.
Xaprb
15 Jul 08 at 11:43 pm
Hi Baron,
congrats to you and all involved. Very good to hear its going so well ;)
Roland Bouman
16 Jul 08 at 3:27 am
Congrats. I’ve been pondering getting the book, just wondering what the differences to the first edition are. There any summary anywhere?
Vlad
16 Jul 08 at 1:12 pm
That’s a great question, and one that I hear a lot. This is no typical “update and modernize” second edition. Anything you were dissatisfied with in the first edition, such as query optimization and tuning advice, is liable to be more than satisfactory to you now.
A fuller list is here:
http://www.highperfmysql.com/2008/07/16/what-changed-from-the-first-to-second-edition-of-high-performance-mysql/
Xaprb
16 Jul 08 at 1:59 pm
I cannot emphasize how fantastic a job the authors did on this book. Here is to selling out again in round 2. Cheers!
Matt
16 Jul 08 at 2:21 pm
Thanks for the great book. I picked it up last week and already it is proving useful!
Peter Robinett
16 Jul 08 at 3:22 pm
I have order my copy from Amazon today. No authors signature but I cann’t keep ready and ready how great the book and not have my copy.
Is there a Maatkit chapter?
Congrats Baron and mates.
Ernesto Vargas
16 Jul 08 at 7:45 pm