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Major Changes To MySQL Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the whose-sql dept.

Meltr writes: "This ZDNET article details some of the coming changes to the MySQL database server. In 4.0, to be released in mid-October: 'support for the Unicode character set, the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol, embedded database links and multitable updates' and in 4.1, to be released in December: 'nested queries and stored procedures'."

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  1. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow! You mean MySQL is only two versions away from having 75% of the features of PostgreSQL? I'm amazed.

    1. Re:Wow! by Nugget94M · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      This also shows you that most applications using dbs are not that complex - just updating one row at a time is fine.


      This use case is most certainly not fine in mysql, though, due to its refusal to support anything more granular than full table locks.


      It's difficult to take a platform seriously when the documentation makes silly rationalizations like "For large tables, table locking is MUCH better than row locking for most applications" which is about the silliest load of crap I've read since they pulled the paragraph from the mysql documentation that explained why you'd never want to use foreign keys (it was removed once mysql began supporting foreign keys).


      MySQL's main feature seems to be its immense popular support among people who haven't used any of the alternatives. Not a very compelling endoresement, if you ask me.

  2. PosgreSQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I can't understand why anyone would use MySQL when PostgreSQL is more free and without doubt far technically superior, even speed-wise PostgreSQL is faster; as of the 7.1 release.

  3. Re:More vapourware by mosch · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    A man that speaks the TRUTH! MySQL is a toy, no referential integrity, no CHECK constraints, no stored procedures. It's fast, but so is a JATO rocket attached to a bicycle. Only a fool would use MySQL for something where the data actually matters.

    For a good example of MySQL's performance under load, look at crash^Wslashdot, which probably averages two crashes a day or so, with 5 or 10 minutes down for each crash. As a man much smarter than me has said, slashdot does a wonderful job evangalizing Microsoft products.