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High Performance MySQL, Second Edition is #3,868 on Amazon

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Amazon.com Sales Rank #3,868 in Books.

And that’s before it’s even available!

This is sales rank in all books. Not technical books, not MySQL books. All books.

Unbelievable.

The book has gone to press!

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

As of Friday, June 6th, the book has gone to press.  The in-stock date is June 19th, 2008.

I’ve asked for the PDF of the final book as it went to press, and will extract and update the sample material when I get it.  The figures were revised until literally the last few hours. (Note to prospective authors: consider figures just like text; make sure you have a professional helping with them along the way, just as you do with the text.)

The publisher has promised that they’ll have the books at the upcoming Velocity conference, so you will be able to physically buy one there.  Stop in and see Peter; he is speaking at that conference, too.

Official website launched for High Performance MySQL

Monday, May 26th, 2008

We’ve launched the official website for the new High Performance MySQL book — that is, the second edition. The second edition is the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s groundbreaking work by Jeremy Zawodny and Derek J. Balling. We’ve had some troubles with the domain that was registered for the first edition, so we’ve registered a similar domain and will set up a redirect if the original domain becomes available again.

What can you expect to find here?

  • Updates on the book’s progress. (It’s currently in final quality control, scheduled for press on June 6, 2008).
  • Code samples, links, and sample content. Rough drafts are already posted. We’ll post final versions once final quality control is finished.
  • News about any further work we do. Will there be a third edition? Maybe…
  • Anything else relevant, such as errata.

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