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MySQL Gets Perl Stored Procedures

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

ryarger writes "Woo Hoo! After a seeming eternity of wait, there is finally an implementation of stored procedures for MySQL. It uses Perl as the stored proc language, too!" Also note that this piece of work was done by OSDNs own Krow. Very cool work I must say.

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  1. Subselects? by hetfield · · Score: 3, Funny

    My boss (Windows NT admin) and I were just discussing MySQL. We're running a number of small databases with Oracle on NT (with a University License), but we started talking about MySQL when I mentioned Slashdot was powered by it. Our web server and my workstation are Linux in NT land, and I try to plug Linux wherever I can. My boss is even learning Perl so he can code for our web server.

    He liked MySQL until he heard that it couldn't do two things: stored procedures and subselects. He said "I don't see how it could be useful without those things." All of the database apps he's ever written use those.

    It's great to see stored procedures being implemented. It would be even better if/when subselects are implemented. I could make a stronger case for moving some things over.

    Any chance of it happening?