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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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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
