MySQL AB and Pearson Education Launch MySQL Press

Posted on March 5, 2004

MySQL AB, developer of the popular MySQL open source database, and Pearson Education, a division of Pearson plc, announced the launch of MySQL Press, an exclusive publisher of MySQL AB-authorized technology information books and materials. MySQL Press, a collaboration between MySQL and Pearson Education, publishes and globally distributes books about the MySQL database and related technologies.

The first book offered by MySQL Press, MySQL Tutorial, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, is currently available. MySQL Tutorial is aimed at giving MySQL users an easy way of learning the important MySQL features and helping them with the tasks facing them in their daily lives. The next three MySQL Press books -- MySQL Certification Study Guide, MySQL Administrator's Guide and MySQL Language Reference -- are expected to be available in Spring 2004.

MySQL Certification Study Guide, by bestselling MySQL authors Paul DuBois and Stefan Hinz and Carsten Pedersen, Certification Manager at MySQL AB, will help MySQL users study for the MySQL Core and Professional certification exams. MySQL AB has collaborated with Pearson VUE, a global computer-based testing service, to provide the MySQL Certification Program, through which MySQL software developers can earn one or more formal credentials that validate their knowledge, experience and skill with the MySQL database and related MySQL AB products.

MySQL Administrator Guide includes the core content of the existing MySQL Reference Manual in a new edition based on the MySQL database version 5.0. Written by the MySQL development and documentation teams and edited by Paul DuBois, it focuses on documenting tasks relevant to database administrators using MySQL. MySQL Language Reference, written by the same team behind the Administrator's Guide, includes the syntax reference content of the existing MySQL Reference Manual in a new edition based on MySQL version 5.0. It is designed for database administrators and programmers who need a detailed reference to the MySQL language and all available application programming interfaces (APIs).

"Pearson Education is the world's largest publisher of computer-related books, with the international distribution channels and marketing muscle to deliver MySQL Press books to virtually every corner of the globe," said Kaj Arno, vice president, Professional Services and Documentation, at MySQL AB. "There are already hundreds of excellent books in print about MySQL, a clear indication of the demand for MySQL titles. MySQL Press will add to this active market a series of select publications delivered in multiple languages, with a guarantee that they contain the highest-quality, first-hand information about MySQL."



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