Today's MySQL Suckage

Oliver Gorwits oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 30 21:53:34 GMT 2009


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Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> Another thing that sucks about MySQL is its name.

No argument, but instead a possibly little known factoid:

"MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter, My."

which is pronounced "me", so you say "me SQL".

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/history.html

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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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