I confess — I have not always been an exclusive MySQL user. I have fooled around with other DBMSs. I was young, inexperienced, and I needed the money, I swear!
This comes about because I was doing some electronic de-crufting….From a file last modified on 10:50 am on 2005-06-30:
> more addcatalog.sh #!/bin/sh db2 catalog tcpip node $1 remote $2 server 50000 db2 terminate db2 catalog database sample as $2 at node $1 db2 terminate # [db2inst1@midgard db2inst1]$ db2sql92 -a db2inst3/password -d coworkername
And from the same time-frame there’s also:
I just wanted to thank everyone who participated in the survey that Mark Schoonover and I created. My endless thanks goes to Mark who did a lot of work on this.
The results will be coming out in the Summer issue of MySQL Magazine which will be online July the 15th. I am putting together the articles now and it looks like it’s going to be a great one!
In case you haven’t heard, on Monday, MySQL released the next RC of 5.1.25. It is available to the community, so download it now and take it for a spin!