MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development - Softcover

Sergei Golubchik; Andrew Hutchings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849510601 ISBN 13: 9781849510608

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book is written in a hands-on style that actively involves you while you read through its chapters. In every chapter you, along with the author, will be implementing one or more fully working example plugins. The process is accompanied with a detailed step-by-step explanation of the code, at the same time providing you with resources to create your own plugins. If you are a MySQL application developer or a programmer who wants to interface with MySQL server, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of C/C++, SQL, and MySQL in particular is assumed in the book, but no deep familiarity with any of the topics is required.

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About the Author

Sergei Golubchik

Sergei Golubchik started modifying MySQL source code in 1998, and has continued as a MySQL AB employee since 2000. Working professionally with MySQL sources, he has had the opportunity to get to know and extend almost every part of the server code-from the SQL core to the utility functions. He was one of the primary architects of the Plugin API. After working for ten years in the ever-growing MySQL AB, and later in Sun Microsystems as a Principal Software Developer, he resigned to join a small startup company that works on a MariaDB-an extended version of the MySQL server, where he continues to do what he likes most-hack on MySQL, architecting, and developing MySQL/MariaDB Plugin API, making it even more powerful, safe, and easy to use.

He works and lives in Germany, near Cologne, with his lovely wife and two kids.

Andrew Hutchings

Andrew Hutchings is currently one of the top MySQL Support Engineers working at Oracle. He came from failing Computer Science at A-Level (British exams for 17-18 year olds) to working on, pretty much, every field of computing. His first development job was as an 8-bit assembly firmware developer for an environment monitoring company. He then went on to become a senior PHP and C/ C++ developer as well as a DBA and system administrator for a large UK magazine chain. From there he was snapped up by Sun Microsystems as a MySQL Support Engineer specializing in MySQL Cluster and C/C++ APIs, much of this work involving deep analysis of the MySQL source code. Sun has since been bought by Oracle and Andrew is continuing his role there and was a tutorial speaker at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo. In his spare time Andrew is an active community developer of MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Drizzle, and MySQL Data Dumper (mydumper for short) as well as other small, related projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849510601
• ISBN 13: 9781849510608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288