MySQL. Managing and Using MySQL. - O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001.

   The History of MySQL actually goes back to 1979 when MySQL's inventor, Michael Widenius (a.k.a. Monty) developed an in-house database tool called UNIREG for managing databases. UNIREG is a tty interface builder that uses a low-level connection to an ISAM storage with indexing. In the years that have followed, UNIREG has been rewritten in several different languages and extended to handle big databases. It is still available today, but it is largely supplanted by MySQL.

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