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My was Monty's daughter's name. It's also why his next database is MariaDB, that's his other daughter's name. The My as in ownership and My as his daughters nam

My was Monty's daughter's name. It's also why his next database is MariaDB, that's his other daughter's name. The My as in ownership and My as his daughters name was just a good coincidence.

gaius 16y ago
No, My is Monty's own nickname.
- mattyb 16y ago
  Might be true, but the MySQL docs state that the 'My' comes from his daughter: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/history.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/history.html