Added section explaining MySQL Portals on the website.

* Clients::                     MySQL client tools and APIs

* Extending MySQL::             Extending MySQL

* Problems::                    Problems

* Users::                       MySQL Users

* MySQL Testimonials::          MySQL Testimonials

* Contrib::                     Contributed programs

* Credits::                     Contributors to MySQL

* News::                        MySQL change history

MySQL website (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}),

please send e-mail to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}.

Questions about the MySQL Portals (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/portal/})

may be sent to @email{portals@@mysql.com}.

MySQL AB has a privacy policy, which can be read at

@uref{http://www.mysql.com/company/privacy.html}.

For any queries regarding this policy, please e-mail

@node MySQL Information Sources, Compatibility, MySQL 4.0 In A Nutshell, Introduction

@section MySQL Information Sources

@cindex manuals, about MySQL

@cindex books, about MySQL

@menu

* Portals::                     MySQL Portals

* Questions::                   MySQL Mailing Lists

* MySQL-Books::                 Books About MySQL

* General-SQL::                 General SQL Information and Tutorials

@end menu

@node Questions, MySQL-Books, MySQL Information Sources, MySQL Information Sources

@node Portals, Questions, MySQL Information Sources, MySQL Information Sources

@subsection MySQL Portals

@cindex MySQL Portals

@cindex manuals, about MySQL

@cindex books, about MySQL

@cindex MySQL Testimonials

@cindex users, of MySQL

@cindex news sites

@cindex search engines, web

@cindex web search engines

@cindex online magazines

@cindex magazines, online

@cindex websites

@cindex services

@cindex PHP, websites

@cindex consultants, list of

@cindex web pages, miscellaneous

The MySQL Portals (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/portal/}) on our

website feature a diverse range of MySQL related information and

links, designed to make it easy to find the things your need.

You may register as a user, which will allow you to comment and

rate any items in the portals as well as submit your own

contributions. By registering you may also choose to receive news

letters from categories that you select.

Some of the current MySQL Portal categories:

@itemize @bullet

@item Books

From here you can find any MySQL, or computers related books,

comment, vote or buy them.

@item Development

This portal has links to sites that are using MySQL for various

purposes, with a description of each site. This information can

give you an idea of who uses MySQL and how MySQL can fulfill

their requirements.

Do let us know about @emph{your} site or success story too!

@item Software 

Here you can find and download a multitude of applications and

wrappers that make use of MySQL.

@item Distributions 

From here you can find the various Linux distributions and other

software packages that contain MySQL.

@item Consultants 

Here you can find information about MySQL Consultants.

@item Partners 

Here you can find all MySQL Partners.

@end itemize

@node Questions, MySQL-Books, Portals, MySQL Information Sources

@subsection MySQL Mailing Lists

@cindex reporting, errors

A lecture about B-Trees.

@end table

There are also many Web pages that use MySQL.  @xref{Users}. 

Send any additions to this list to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}. We now

require that you show a MySQL logo somewhere if you wish your 

site to be added.  It is okay to have it on a ``used tools'' page or 

something similar.

@node Compatibility, TODO, MySQL Information Sources, Introduction

@section How Standards-compatible Is MySQL?

@end itemize

@node Problems, Users, Extending MySQL, Top

@node Problems, Contrib, Extending MySQL, Top

@appendix Problems and Common Errors

@cindex problems, common errors

@node Users, MySQL Testimonials, Problems, Top

@appendix MySQL Users

@cindex users, of MySQL

@cindex news sites

This appendix lists users of MySQL that have given us permission

to list them in our documentation.  It is by far not a complete list, but

should give you a general idea of who uses MySQL and what it can

be used for.

@appendixsec General News Sites

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.yahoo.com/} (Yahoo!)

@item @uref{http://slashdot.org/} (Slashdot: A pro-Linux/tech news and comment/discussion site)

@item @uref{http://www.linux.com/} (All about Linux)

@item @uref{http://www.linuxtoday.com/} (Linuxtoday)

@item @uref{http://www.32bitsonline.com/} (32Bits Online: because there's

more than one way to compute)

@item @uref{http://www.freshmeat.net/} (Freshmeat: News about new versions of computer-related stuff)

@end itemize

@cindex search engines, web

@cindex web search engines

@appendixsec Web Search Engines

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.aaa.com.au/} (AAA Matilda Web Search)

@item @uref{http://www.whatsnu.com/} (What's New)

@item @uref{http://www.aladin.de/} (Aladin)

@item @uref{http://www.columbus-finder.de/} (Columbus Finder)

@item @uref{http://www.spider.de/} (Spider)

@item @uref{http://www.blitzsuche.de/} (Blitzsuche)

@item @uref{http://www.indoseek.co.id/} (Indoseek Indonesia)

@item @uref{http://www.yaboo.dk/} (Yaboo - Yet Another BOOkmarker)

@item @uref{http://www.ozsearch.com.au/} (OzSearch Internet Guide)

@item @uref{http://www.splatsearch.com/} (Splat! Search)

@item @uref{http://osdls.library.arizona.edu/} (The Open Source Digital Library System Project)

@end itemize

@appendixsec Information Search Engines Specialising in a Particular Area

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.spylog.ru/} (SpyLOG ;  A very popular Web counter site)

@item @uref{http://www.tucows.com/} (TuCows Network; Free Software archive)

@item @uref{http://www.jobvertise.com/} (Jobvertise: Post and search for jobs)

@item @uref{http://www.musicdatabase.com/} (The Music Database)

@item @uref{http://www.soccersearch.com/} (Football -Soccer- search page)

@item @uref{http://www.headrush.net/takedown} (TAKEDOWN - wrestling)

@item @uref{http://www.lyrics.net/} (The International Lyrics Network)

@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~matrix/band_search.phtml} (Musicians looking for other musicians; free service)

@item @uref{http://www.addall.com/AddBooks/Stores.html} (AddALL books searching and price comparison)

@item @uref{http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/gray.html} (Harvard's Gray Herbarium Index of Plant Names)

@item @uref{http://www.game-developer.com/} (The Game Development Search Engine)

@item @uref{http://www.theinnkeeper.com/} (The Innkeeper Vacation Guides)

@item @uref{http://www.macgamedatabase.com/} (The Mac Game Database uses PHP and MySQL)

@c From: Marc Antony Vose <suzerain@suzerain.com>

@item @uref{http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/publications/} (Research

Publications at Monash University in Australia)

@item @uref{http://www.ipielle.emr.it/bts/}

(Occupational Health & Safety Website database; a project for the ECC)

@c c.presutti@ipielle.emr.it

@item @uref{http://data.mch.mcgill.ca/} (Bioinformatics databases at the

Montreal Children's Hospital using MySQL)

@c saeed@www.debelle.mcgill.ca

@end itemize

@cindex online magazines

@cindex magazines, online

@appendixsec Online Magazines

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.spoiler.com/} (Spoiler Webzine)

An online magazine featuring music, literature, arts, and design content.

@item @uref{http://www.linux-magazin.de/newsflash/} (Daily news about Linux in German language)

@item @uref{http://www.betazine.com/} (Betazine - The Ultimate Online Beta Tester's Magazine)

@item @uref{http://www.currents.net/ccinfo/aboutcc.html} (Computer Currents Magazine)

@end itemize

@cindex websites

@appendixsec Websites that Use MySQL as a Backend

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA)

@item @uref{http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA KIDS)

@item @uref{http://science.nasa.gov/} (Sience@@NASA)

@item @uref{http://www.handy.de/} (handy.de)

@item @uref{http://lindev.jmc.tju.edu/qwor/} (Qt Widget and Object Repository)

@item @uref{http://www.samba-choro.com.br/} (Brazilian samba site; in Portuguese)

@item @uref{http://pgss.iss.uw.edu.pl/en_index.ISS} (Polish General Social Survey)

@item @uref{http://www.expo2000.com/} Expo2000 - world-wide distribution of

tickets for this event is implemented using MySQL and Tcl/Tk. More than

5000 travel agencies all over the world have access to it.

@item @uref{http://www.freevote.com/} FreeVote.com is a free voting

service with millions of users.

@item @uref{http://f1.tauzero.se/} (Forza Motorsport)

@item @uref{http://www.dreamhost.com/} (DreamHost Web Hosting)

@end itemize

@cindex services

@appendixsec Domain/Internet/Web and Related Services

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.wix.com/mysql-hosting/} (Registry of Web providers that

support MySQL)

@item @uref{http://www.yi.org/} (Dynamic DNS Services)

@item @uref{http://www.dynodns.net/} (Dynamic domain name service)

@item @uref{http://www.ods.org/} (Open DNS Project; free dynamic DNS service)

@c @item @uref{http://dynodns.net/} (Free dynamic DNS implementation)

@c EMAIL: A Moore <amoore@mooresystems.com>

@item @uref{http://www.hn.org/} (Hammernode; Public DNS Servers)

@item @uref{http://www.fdns.net/} (Free 3rd level domains)

@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)

@item @uref{http://www.bigbiz.com/} (BigBiz Internet Services)

@item @uref{http://virt.circle.net/} (The Virt Gazette)

@item @uref{http://www.california.com/} (Global InfoNet Inc)

@item @uref{http://www.webhosters.com/} (WebHosters - A Guide to WWW Providers)

@item @uref{http://online.dn.ru/} (Internet information server)

@item @uref{http://www.worldnetla.net/} (WorldNet Communications - An Internet Services Provider)

@item @uref{http://www.netizen.com.au/} (Netizen: Australian-based Web consultancy)

@item @uref{http://www.trainingpages.co.uk/} (Search site for training courses in the UK)

@item @uref{http://chat.nitco.com/} (Gannon Chat; GPL. Written in Perl and Javascript)

@item @uref{http://www.addurls.com/} (A general links directory)

@item @uref{http://www.bookmarktracker.com/} (A Web-based bookmark management service)

@item @uref{http://www.cdrom.com/} (Walnut Creek CDROM)

@item @uref{http://www.wwwthreads.org/} (WWWThreads; Interactive discussion Forums)

@item @uref{http://pvmon.portici.enea.it/Meteo/} (In Italian; Storage data from meteo station)

@item @uref{http://www.buysell.net/} (Online "Person To Person" Auction)

@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/} (Tips on Web development)

@item @uref{http://www.mailfriends.com/} (Mailfriends.com is a FREE service for

everybody who wants to find friends over the internet)

@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cgi-bin/wctelnets?list} (Web Page Telnet BBS List)

@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cnc.html} (UniNova Digital Postcards)

@c @item @uref{http://cabinboy.powersurfr.com/} (An Internet RFC search engine)

@item @uref{http://www.dslreports.com/} (DSL-provider search with reviews)

Made with MySQL and Modperl, all pages are generated dynamically out of

the MySQL database

@end itemize

@cindex PHP, websites

@appendixsec Websites that Use @code{PHP} and MySQL

@itemize @bullet

@c @item @uref{http://www.wh200th.com/} (White House 200th Anniversary site)

@item @uref{http://support.jgaa.com/} (Jgaa's Internet - Official Support Site)

@item @uref{http://io.incluso.com/} (Ionline - online publication) MySQL,

PHP, Java, Web programming, DB development

@item @uref{http://www.baboo.com/} (BaBoo - Browse and Bookmark. Free Web-based bookmark manager and Calendar)

@item @uref{http://www.courses.pjc.cc.fl.us/Schedule/}

(Course Schedule System at Pensacola Junior College)

@item @uref{http://www.fccj.org/} (Florida Community College at Jacksonville)

@item @uref{http://www.32bit.com/} (32bit.com; An extensive shareware / freeware archive)

@item @uref{http://www.jokes2000.com/} (Jokes 2000)

@c Added 990604; EMAIL: ah@dybdahl.dk

@item @uref{http://www.burken.nu/}

Burken is a webhotel that provides scripts, among other things,

for remote users, like counters, guestbooks etc.

@c Added 990608; EMAIL: spacedmp@SpaceDump.Burken.NU (Anders Olausson)

@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/}

Contains tips on html, javascript, 2d/3d graphics, and PHP3/MySQL.

All pages are generated from a database.

@c Added 990614; EMAIL: downey@image.dk (Rune Madsen)

@item @uref{http://www.softwarezrus.com/}

Ecommerce site that is selling computers.

@end itemize

@cindex consultants, list of

@appendixsec MySQL Consultants

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.ayni.com/} (Ayni AG)

@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)

@item @uref{http://www2.dataguard.no/} (DataGuard; Uses MySQL and PHP)

@item @uref{http://wwits.net/programs/mysql.phtml} (WWITS; uses MySQL and PHP)

@item @uref{http://www.worldcommunity.com/} (WCN - The World Community Network)

@item @uref{http://www.chipcastle.com/} (Chip Castle Dot Com Inc)

@c Added 990603 EMAIL: chip@chipcastle.com (Chip Castle)

@item @uref{http://www.cyber.com.au/} (Cybersource Pty. Ltd)

@item @uref{http://www.spring.de/} (Spring infotainment gmbh & co. kg)

@c added 990905 "Oliver Pischke" <opischke@spring.de>

@item @uref{http://www.wamdesign.com/} (Wam Design develops websites using MySQL)

@c Added 990905; max@wamdesign.com

@item @uref{http://www.berkeleyconsultants.com/} (Berkeley Consultants Group)

@item @uref{http://www.jammconsulting.com/} (JAMM Consulting Inc)

@end itemize

@c Commented out by Arjen 011018, section is empty!

@c appendixsec Programming

@cindex web pages, miscellaneous

@appendixsec Uncategorised Pages

@itemize @bullet

@item @uref{http://www.feature-showcase.com/htmls/demo_mysql.sql} (AZC.COM's Feature Showcase)

@item @uref{http://www.teach.org.uk/subjects/trainingcourse/g.html} (Course Search)

@item @uref{http://www.northerbys.com/} (Northerbys Online Auctions)

@item @uref{http://www.schiphol.nl/flights/home.htm} (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol)

@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/seventhsin/query.phtml} (CD database)

@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~flmm/GEAR.html} (Used Audio Gear Database)

@item @uref{http://www.kiss.de/musik-mueller/} (Musical note-sheets)

@item @uref{http://www.bagism.com/} (Bagism; A John Lennon fan page)

@item @uref{http://www.selftaught.com/} (US Folk art broker)

@item @uref{http://organizer.net/} (Mail reading on the Web)

@item @uref{http://www.mypage.org/} (Free home pages on www.somecoolname.mypage.org)

@item @uref{http://www.schulweb.de/} (Der Server f@"ur Schulen im Web - in German)

@item @uref{http://www.ald.net/} (Auldhaefen Online Services)

@item @uref{http://www.cary.net/} (CaryNET Information Center)

@item @uref{http://www.dataden.com/} (Dataden Computer Systems)

@item @uref{http://andree.grm.se/} (Andr@'emuseet; in Swedish)

@item @uref{http://www.him.net/} (HOMESITE Internet Marketing)

@item @uref{http://www.jade-v.com/techinfo.html} (Jade-V Network Services)

@item @uref{http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/abt/aknw/tech.rxml}

Weather World 2010 Technical Credits

@item @uref{http://gimp.foebud.org/registry/doc/}

About The Gimp plugin registry

@item @uref{http://www.fast-inc.com/Products/Archiver/database.html}

Java tool; archiver technical detail (Slightly optimistic about MySQL

ANSI-92 compliance)

@item @uref{http://www.gamesdomain.com/cheats/usrcheat.phtml} (Games Domain Cheats Database)

@item @uref{http://www.kcilink.com/poweredby/} (The "Powered By" Page; Kcilink)

@item @uref{http://www.netcasting.net/index.whtml} (Netcasting)

@item @uref{http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mjj/nbltips} (NBL: Australian National Basketball League; tipping)

@item @uref{http://www.cgishop.com/} (CGI shop)

@item @uref{http://www.whirlycott.com/} (Whirlycott: Website Design)

@item @uref{http://www.mtp.dk/} (Museum Tusculanum Press)

@item @uref{http://csdgi.historie.ku.dk/biblio/} (Centro Siciliano di Documentazione)

@item @uref{http://caribou.dyn.ml.org:8000/} (Quake statistics database)

@item @uref{http://www.astroforum.ch/} (Astroforum: Astrologie and related things; in German)

@item @uref{http://www.opendebate.com/} (OpenDebate - Interactive Polls & Open Discussion)

@item @uref{http://vermeer.organik.uni-erlangen.de/dissertationen/} (Online chemical dissertation server)

@item @uref{http://www.freschinfo.com/} (FreSch! The Free Scholarship Search Service)

@item @uref{http://www.nada.kth.se/~staffanu/pinball/} (Stockholm Pinball Locator)

@item @uref{http://www.hek.com/} (HEK - a construction company)

@item @uref{http://www.ebi.nl/} (Elsevier Business Information)

@item @uref{http://vaccination.medicallink.se/} (Medical Links; using ColdFusion and MySQL)

@item @uref{http://www.joblink-usa.com/} (Search for jobs & people at JobLink-USA)

@item @uref{http://www.skydive.net/competfs/} (Competition Formation Skydiving)

@item @uref{http://www.galaxy-net.net/} (Galaxy-NET Telecommunications; E-commerce and internal accounting)

@item @uref{http://www.borsen.dk/} (Denmark's leading business daily newspaper B@o{}rsen)

@item @uref{http://tmmm.simplenet.com/indb/} (The Internet NES Database)

@item @uref{http://www.russia.cz/} (Travel agency in Prague in 3 languages)

@item @uref{http://www.linkstation.de/} (Linkstation)

@item @uref{http://www.peoplestaff.com/} (Searchable online database at Peoplestaff)

@item @uref{http://www.dreamhorse.com/} (A searchable database system for horse classified ads)

@item @uref{http://pootpoot.com/} (The Poot site)

@item @uref{http://grateful.net/hw_html/} ("Playin' in the LAN"; a network monitoring suite)

@c Update from  Christopher Milton <cmilton@bwn.net> 1999-12-21

@item @uref{http://www.usapa.army.mil/} (U.S. Army Publishing Agency)

@item @uref{http://www.nekretnine.co.yu/} (Realestate handling in Yugoslavia)

@item @uref{http://demo.cpsoft.com/pims/devFAQ.html} (PIMS; a Patient Information Management System)

@item @uref{http://cpsoft.com/} (Pilkington Software Inc)

@item @uref{http://www.no-quarter.org/} (A Vietnam Veteran's Memorial - The Wall - database)

@item @uref{http://www.gamers-union.com/} (Gamer's Union specializes in auctions of used & out-of-print gaming material)

@item @uref{http://www.montereyhigh.com/office/dbul.php3} (A daily bulletin at Monterey High school)

@item @uref{http://www.myEastside.com/} (Community-owned site serving Lake

Washington's Eastside residents and businesses)

@item @uref{http://bowling-france.net/} (French bowling site)

@end itemize

Send any additions to this list to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}.

@page

@node MySQL Testimonials, Contrib, Users, Top

@appendix MySQL Testimonials

@cindex MySQL Testimonials

The section 'MySQL Users' contains a lot of different links to

MySQL users but doesn't provide that much information about how

they are using MySQL.  @xref{Users}. This section gives you an idea

of how other MySQL users are using MySQL to solve their problems.

Please note that all new stories are added on the MySQL website,

@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}.

Do let us know about @emph{your} success story too!

@itemize @bullet

@item 

@strong{Peter Zaitsev of Spylog.ru} writes:

I think you might be interested in my database size.  The whole database

is currently on 15 servers and I think it's about 60.000 of tables

containing about 5.000.000.000 of rows.  My mostly loaded server

currently holds about 10.000 of tables with 1.000.000.000 of rows in it.

Hugest tables have about 50.000.000 of rows, and this value will raise

as soon as I'll move to 2.4 kernel with large files. Currently I have to

delete much of logs for large sites to hold table sizes in 2Gb.

@item

@strong{Texas Instruments} is using MySQL for handling tables 

that contain up to 2,000 million rows in a validation regression database.

@end itemize

@page

@node Contrib, Credits, MySQL Testimonials, Top

@node Contrib, Credits, Problems, Top

@appendix Contributed Programs

@cindex contributed programs

@c FIX AGL 20011108 Extracted from manual.texi.

@c Should only be on website with new submits by webform.

@node MySQL Testimonials, Contrib, Users, Top

@appendix MySQL Testimonials

@cindex MySQL Testimonials

The section 'MySQL Users' contains a lot of different links to

MySQL users but doesn't provide that much information about how

they are using MySQL.  @xref{Users}. This section gives you an idea

of how other MySQL users are using MySQL to solve their problems.

Please note that all new stories are added on the MySQL website,

@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}.

Do let us know about @emph{your} success story too!

@itemize @bullet

@item 

@strong{Peter Zaitsev of Spylog.ru} writes:

I think you might be interested in my database size.  The whole database

is currently on 15 servers and I think it's about 60.000 of tables

containing about 5.000.000.000 of rows.  My mostly loaded server

currently holds about 10.000 of tables with 1.000.000.000 of rows in it.

Hugest tables have about 50.000.000 of rows, and this value will raise

as soon as I'll move to 2.4 kernel with large files. Currently I have to

delete much of logs for large sites to hold table sizes in 2Gb.

@item