Contributors to MySQL For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha. For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC. For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21. Ideas for secure checking of DNS host names. Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters. A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set. Czech sorting order. FROM_UNIXTIME()  time formatting,  ENCRYPT()  functions, and  bison  advisor. Active mailing list member. Loadable functions;  CREATE FUNCTION  and  DROP FUNCTION . The  AGGREGATE  extension to loadable functions. Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32. The  libmysql.dll  library. Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers. •Curt Sampson  <cjs@portal.ca> •James Pereria  <jpereira@iafrica.com> •Jethro Wright III  <jetman@li.net> •Ross Wakelin  <R.Wakelin@march.co.uk> •Andreas F. Bobak  <bobak@relog.ch> •Alexis Mikhailov  <root@medinf.chuvashia.su> •Luuk de Boer  <luuk@wxs.nl> •Zeev Suraski  <bourbon@netvision.net.il> •Jan Pazdziora  <adelton@fi.muni.cz> •Wei He  <hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn> •Wei-Jou Chen  <jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw> •David Sacerdote  <davids@secnet.com> •Jay Bloodworth  <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us> •Antoni Pamies Olive  <toni@readysoft.es> 86 Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to  DBI / DBD . Have been of great help with  crash-me  and running benchmarks. Some new date functions. The  mysql_setpermission  script. Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.