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This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that have helped to make MySQL what it is today.
These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL AB to work on the MySQL database software, roughly in the order they started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of the tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments they have made. All developers are involved in support.
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!).
Connector/ODBC (MyODBC), the ODBC driver for Windows.
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL Server. And also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
Porting of mSQL tools like msqlperl, DBD/DBI, and DB2mysql.
Most of crash-me and the foundation for the MySQL benchmarks.
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).
mysqlimport
A lot of extensions to the command-line clients.
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
Compression (with zlib) in the client/server protocol.
Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer 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
Multiple-table DELETE/UPDATE
Derived tables in 4.1
User resources management
Initial developer of the MySQL++ C++ API and the MySQLGUI client.
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.
Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).
SHOW CREATE TABLE.
mysql-bench
MySQL test suite.
Webmaster (until 2002).
Coordinator of development.
Win32 development and release builds.
Windows NT server code.
WinMySQLAdmin
Dynamic character sets support.
configure, RPMs and other parts of the build system.
Initial developer of libmysqld, the embedded server.
Full-text search.
Added keys to the MERGE library.
Proofreading and editing this fine manual.
ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ....
UPDATE ... ORDER BY ....
DELETE ... ORDER BY ....
Designing/programming of our Web interface.
Author of our newsletter management system.
MySQLCC (MySQL Control Center)
Win32 development
Initial implementation of the Web site portals.
MyODBC 3.51
New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).
Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual.
Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual.
Spatial data (GIS) and R-Trees implementation for 4.1
Unicode and character sets for 4.1; documentation for same
Query cache in 4.0
Implementation of subqueries (4.1).
Benchmarks design and analysis.
Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.
Open Source advocate, MySQL community relations.
The MySQL Certification program.
Production (build and release) engineering.
SHA1(), AES_ENCRYPT() and AES_DECRYPT() functions.
Debugging, cleaning up various features.
Support.
Debugging.
Lead developer for stored procedures (5.0) and triggers.
Lead Web developer.
Connector/J driver (Java).
SQL standards compliance.
Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.
Character set documentation.
Replication, from MySQL version 4.0.
Fixed handling of exponents for DECIMAL.
Author of mysql_tableinfo.
Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.
Much of the initial work on NDB Cluster until 2000. Roughly half the code base at that time. Transaction protocol, node recovery, system restart and restart code and parts of the API functionality.
Lead Architect, developer, debugger of NDB Cluster 1994-2004
Lots of optimisations
On-line Backup
The automatic test environment of MySQL Cluster
Portability Library for NDB Cluster
Lots of other things
Ordered index implementation of MySQL Cluster
BLOB support in MySQL Cluster
Charset support in MySQL Cluster
Unique index implementation of MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
The test framework for MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
Lots of work on configuration changes for simple installation and use of MySQL Cluster