MySQL Gets Perl Stored Procedures

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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This would have been great, fifteen years ago.

[The_Messenger]

Wow, now they only have to implement constraints, foreign keys, and transactions, and they'll almost be on the level of Postgresql.

Who knows, maybe MySQL will one day be considered a real database product.Until then, though, those of use doing Real Work will continue to use Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server. Of course, these databases already have professional GUI development tools, spatial data modeling, XML table translation, and tons of other fun toys, so the MySQL developers better get to work!

Honestly, besides cheapo webhosts and poorly designed weblogs, who uses MySQL?

DB2 rocks on GNU/Linux, by the way, and it's free as in beer. You should check it out.