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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