Today's MySQL Suckage
Ovid
publiustemp-londonpm at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 1 16:52:00 GMT 2009
----- Original Message ----
> From: Oliver Gorwits <oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> 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".
I remember him talking about this at OSCON one year. I remember thinking "how does his daughter feel about everyone mispronouncing her name?" Ugh.
Cheers,
Ovid
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