C.1 Developers at MySQL AB

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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