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What's New in MySQL 5.0
by Jordan Running Sep 28th 2005 at 3:20PM
MySQL's popularity has been owed mostly to two things, its speed and its ubiquity. It has been much-maligned by database purists, however, for its lack of hard-core features like views, stored procedures, and triggers. Version 4.0 added sub-selects, transactions, and little else of note, but the newly-unveiled MySQL 5.0 release candidate is poised to put down those criticisms with malice. Along with stored procedures, updatable views, and triggers, MySQL 5.0 adds server-side cursors, increased-precision math, bigger VARCHARs, two new storage engines, and a few more odds and ends.Via Jeremy Zawodny.
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