MySQL is frequently touted as the world’s most widely used relational database management system. Many of the worlds most well known web applications and web sites use MySQL as their data repository. The popularity of MySQL has continued to grow while…

I spent a year writing this book and through it all I wanted to tell someone who uses MySQL regularly that this is what I’ve been doing and how pleased I was of what I was doing.

Recently, I read the novelist Graham Greene’s book “Ways of Escape”. It’s an account of his writing career. In it he wrote, “The novelist works alone: he is lucky if there is one other human being with whom he can discuss a problem or try out a difficult passage.” It’s very trying and frustrating throughout the process. So much creative energy goes into writing even a technical manual and yet it is done almost totally in isolation. Then, after it’s over and published, I wait for people to buy the book and tell me what they think. But because it is a technical book and not a novel, they see it only for its utilitarian value (as they should) and don’t think to seek me out to give me their impressions. I don’t know even know if they found the book useful. So, again, thanks very much for your review.

-Russell