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High Performance MySQL 3rd Edition is real!

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O’Reilly authors get 10 copies of their own books for free, and my copies of the third edition of High Performance MySQL arrived yesterday. Now it’s official! It feels nice to actually hold it in my hand.

A few people have asked me about messages from Amazon saying that their ship date has changed. I don’t know anything about that; maybe Amazon just made a wild guess the first time and now they actually know something more realistic. Or maybe the book is more popular than expected? It’s currently at position #10 in the SQL category on Amazon, which seems pretty good to me. No “DaVinci Code” to be sure, but not bad for a technical book.

Written by Xaprb

March 28th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

Posted in SQL

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6 Responses to 'High Performance MySQL 3rd Edition is real!'

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  1. Amazon shipped mine yesterday with a delivery date of Thursday March 29, 2012. I also got the notice they pushed it back till April, but it looks like that was just a mistake.

    Rob Smith

    28 Mar 12 at 1:22 pm

  2. Congrats Baron! Good news, good job!

    Michael Rikmas

    28 Mar 12 at 6:07 pm

  3. Charlie Stross, a British SF author, writes of Amazon:

    However, Amazon’s database is a giant sucking vacuum of misinformation. It indiscriminately hoovers up forthcoming titles from all and sundry and throws them up in front of the buying public in hope that somebody will, er, buy. Meanwhile, it gets details wrong. In this case, it got the UK publication date wrong, and it also got the territorial availability details wrong.

    Tim McCormack

    29 Mar 12 at 9:05 am

  4. I have a copy in my hand, but this time it’s on my iPad. I found I had a bunch of stickies in my paper copy of the second edition, so I decided to transfer them to the digital format so I could have it at my disposal :)

    Thanks for your work.

    Nate Klaiber

    29 Mar 12 at 5:35 pm

  5. Yay! Congrats!

    Dathan Vance Pattishall

    29 Mar 12 at 9:50 pm

  6. I have written my editor probably a good 20 times to fix misinformation about the second edition on Amazon. It is astonishing. They seem to literally crawl the web with some kind of AI machine and constantly update essential information such as the author, page count, edition, cover photo, publisher, you name it. Most of the time the updated information seems to be correct, but I’ve had to ask my publisher to update their database with the correct authors probably 6 or 8 times. Sometimes they list only one author — sometimes they list people not remotely connected with the real book — I don’t know where they get their data from.

    I used to work at a company that integrated with their merchant APIs and analogous stuff happened there too.

    But this is just the reality, I think: at the scale where Amazon operates, it’s just got to be a big automated machine; nothing else is remotely feasible. Amazon continues to awe me and probably always will.

    Xaprb

    29 Mar 12 at 10:35 pm

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