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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 name was just a good coincidence.



No, My is Monty's own nickname.


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




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