We once started off with the intention to use mSQL to connect to
our own fast low level (ISAM) tables. However, after some testing we
came to the conclusion that mSQL was not fast or flexible enough
for our needs. This resulted in a new SQL interface to our database but
with almost the same API interface as mSQL. This API was chosen
to ease porting of third-party code.
It is not perfectly clear where the name MySQL derives from. Our base directory and a large amount of our libraries and tools have had the prefix 'my' for well over 10 years. However, Monty's daughter (some years younger) is also named My. So which of the two gave its name to MySQL is still a mystery, even for us.
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