Credits
*******

This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that
have helped to make MySQL what it is today.

Developers at MySQL AB
======================

 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*!).

        * `MyODBC', the ODBC driver for Windows95.

        * 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 (more than 10 years old now).
          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
        * Compression (with `zlib') in the client/server protocol.

        * Perfect hashing for the lexical analyser 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

        * Multi-table `DELETE'/`UPDATE'

        * Derived tables in 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
        * Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).

        * `SHOW CREATE TABLE'.

        * `mysql-bench'

Matt Wagner
        * MySQL test suite.

        * Webmaster (until 2002).

        * Coordinator of development.

Miguel Solorzano
        * Win32 development and release builds.

        * Windows NT server code.

        * WinMySQLAdmin

Timothy Smith (past developer)
        * 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.

Jeremy Cole
        * 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
        * `MySQLCC' (`MySQL Control Center')

        * Win32 development

        * Initial implementation of the website portals.

Venu Anuganti
        * Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) 3.51

        * New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).

        *
Arjen Lentz
        * Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual.

        * Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual.

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).

Aleksey (Walrus) Kishkin and Alexey (Ranger) Stroganov
        * Benchmarks design and analysis.

        * Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.

Zak Greant
        * 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) and triggers.

Jim Winstead
        * Lead web developer.

Mark Matthews
        * Connector/J driver (Java).

Peter Gulutzan
          SQL-99, SQL:2003 standards compliance.

        * Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.

        * Character set documentation.

Guilhem Bichot
        * Replication, from `MySQL' version 4.0.

Contributors to MySQL
=====================

 are
listed here, in somewhat random order:

Gianmassimo Vigazzola  or 
     The initial port to Win32/NT.

Kim Aldale
     Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English
     into English.

Per Eric Olsson
     For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the
     dynamic record format.

Irena Pancirov 
     Win32 port with Borland compiler.  `mysqlshutdown.exe' and
     `mysqlwatch.exe'

 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.)

Richard A. O'Keefe
     For his public domain string library.

Henry Spencer
     For his regex library, used in `WHERE column REGEXP regexp'.

 library (for the `mysql' client).

Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
     For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at
     MySQL AB/TcX/detron.

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 
     `mysqldump' (previously `msqldump', but ported and enhanced by
     Monty).

Yuri Dario
     For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.

Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
     For the `DBD' (Perl) interface.

Tim Bunce
     Author of `mysqlhotcopy'.

Andreas Koenig 
     For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.

Eugene Chan 
     For porting PHP for MySQL Server.

Michael J. Miller Jr. 
     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).

 home
     page at linuxdb.yeah.net (http://linuxdb.yeah.net).

Giovanni Maruzzelli 
     For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).

  We are currently using
     version 1_60_beta6 patched by Monty (see
     `mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql').

Xavier Leroy 
     The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).

Zarko Mocnik 
     Sorting for Slovenian language and the `cset.tar.gz' module that
     makes it easier to add other character sets.

"TAMITO" 
     The `_MB' character set macros and the ujis and sjis character
     sets.

Joshua Chamas 
     Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT,
     and answering on the MySQL mailing list.

Yves Carlier 
     `mysqlaccess', a program to show the access rights for a user.

Rhys Jones  (And GWE Technologies Limited)
     For JDBC, a module to extract data from a MySQL Database with a
     Java client.

Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU 
     Further development of the JDBC driver and other MySQL-related
     Java tools.

James Cooper 
     For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.

Rick Mehalick 
     For `xmysql', a graphical X client for MySQL Server.

Doug Sisk 
     For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.

Diemand Alexander V. 
     For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.

Antoni Pamies Olive 
     For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and
     SPARC.

Jay Bloodworth 
     For providing RPM versions for MySQL Version 3.21.

Jochen Wiedmann 
     For maintaining the Perl `DBD::mysql' module.

Therrien Gilbert , Jean-Marc Pouyot 
     French error messages.

Petr Snajdr, 
     Czech error messages.

Jaroslaw Lewandowski 
     Polish error messages.

Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
     Spanish error messages.

Roy-Magne Mo 
     Norwegian error messages and testing of Version 3.21.#.

Timur I. Bakeyev 
     Russian error messages.

 & Filippo Grassilli 
     Italian error messages.

Dirk Munzinger 
     German error messages.

Billik Stefan 
     Slovak error messages.

Stefan Saroiu 
     Romanian error messages.

Peter Feher
     Hungarian error messages.

Roberto M. Serqueira
     Portuguese error messages.

Carsten H. Pedersen
     Danish error messages.

Arjen G. Lentz
     Dutch error messages, completing earlier partial translation (also
     work on consistency and spelling).

David Sacerdote 
     Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.

Wei-Jou Chen 
     Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.

Wei He 
     A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.

Zeev Suraski 
     `FROM_UNIXTIME()' time formatting, `ENCRYPT()' functions, and
     `bison' advisor.  Active mailing list member.

Luuk de Boer 

Jay Flaherty 
     Big parts of the Perl `DBI'/`DBD' section in the manual.

Paul Southworth , Ray Loyzaga 
     Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.

Alexis Mikhailov 
     User-definable functions (UDFs); `CREATE FUNCTION' and `DROP
     FUNCTION'.

Andreas F. Bobak 
     The `AGGREGATE' extension to UDF functions.

Ross Wakelin 
     Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.

Jethro Wright III 
     The `libmysql.dll' library.

James Pereria 
     Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administrating MySQL Server.

Curt Sampson 
     Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.

Antony T. Curtis 
     Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.

Martin Ramsch 
     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.

Guilhem Bichot
     Fixed handling of exponents for `DECIMAL'.  Author of
     `mysql_tableinfo'.

Jocelyn Fournier
     Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in
     the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).

Georg Richter
     MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting.  New PHP 5.0 `mysqli' extension
     (API) for use with MySQL 4.1 and up.

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.

Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio
Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar
Haneke, , ,
, Ted Deppner , 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 
     Irix setup.

Luuk de Boer 
     Benchmark questions.

Tim Sailer 
     `DBD-mysql' questions.

Boyd Lynn Gerber 
     SCO-related questions.

Richard Mehalick 
     `xmysql'-related questions and basic installation questions.

Zeev Suraski 
     Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related
     questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general
     questions.

Francesc Guasch 
     General questions.

Jonathan J Smith 
     Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and
     other things that might need some work.

David Sklar 
     Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.

Alistair MacDonald 
     Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe
     HP-UX.  Will try to get user to use `mysqlbug'.

John Lyon 
     Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either
     `.rpm' files or compiling from source.

Lorvid Ltd. 
     Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.

Patrick Sherrill 
     ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.

Randy Harmon 
     `DBD', Linux, some SQL syntax questions.

Supporters to MySQL
===================

 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
     `--skip-show-database'

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