Latest Library Editions

I’ve had a bit of a windfall of books in the past 2 weeks. I purchased 2 books for the flights to/from the US, picked up an Amazon order on some Database Reference Material for some writings I’m doing, and quite a bounty at the MySQL Users Conference.

  • “Screw It, Lets’ Do It – Lessons in Life” by Richard Branson
  • “Losing My Virginity – The Autobiography” by Richard Branson
  • “An Introduction to Database Systems – Eighth Edition” by C.J. Date
  • “Database in Depth – Relational Theory for Practitioners” by C.J. Date
  • “The Database Relational Model – A Retrospective Review and Analysis” by C. J. Date
  • “MySQL in a Nutshell”
  • “PHP in a Nutshell”
  • “MySQL Clustering”
  • “MySQL Stored Procedures”
  • “MySQL Administrator’s Guide and Language Reference”
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VillageSQL Extensions with versioning

VillageSQL has just released it’s latest version 0.0.5 , describing this as stable release for installations with full MySQL 8.4.10 compatibility. With my primary work around extensions, specifically vsql-statistics , I took the new versioning features for a test.

Producing Two Sample T-Test statistics with SQL

The two sample t-test for equal variance is a statistical test to determine if the means of two groups are different enough that the difference is likely caused by some underlying difference, rather than random chance.

Building your first VillageSQL Extension with AI skills

This is a technical walkthrough of the vsql-extension-builder recently released May 28 at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 and found at https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-skills . Highlights Install VillageSQL pre-built binary first Install SDK with pre-built binary second Install the skill Run it with your AI tool The output can be found at https://github.