Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don't know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb’s Journal. It’s a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim’s thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don’t know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always been an innovator, inventing the widely accepted notion of Blobs (binary large objects) and multi-generational versioning, a key innovation of InterBase.Jim and Ann Harrison joined MySQL from Netfrastructure, the company they founded to work on more efficient use of DBMS technology for modern web-based applications. Since then, Jim and Ann have been developing the Falcon transactional storage engine which is essentially lock-free and has been optimized for large memory, multi-core CPUs. If you’re curious about the future of database technology, Jim is one of the guys to pay attention to. Open Source