In the 19th Jolt Product Excellence Awards, our High Performance MySQL book is listed under the Technical Books category. That is so cool!
How I found out: I don’t think O’Reilly or any of the authors were notified of this, but I got a Google alert because someone else referred to it (interesting that the Jolt Awards site itself didn’t trigger an alert).
I have to admit that I’m actually “caffeine free” at the moment, but I hope Jolt will forgive me for that 😉
Peter noted that MySQL itself is not one of the database category finalists. It doesn’t have to be, but “traditionally” MySQL tends to always be a strong contender in these things. So I agree that its absence is somewhat noteworthy (in as far as the absence of something can be regarded as news).