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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. MySQL other database comparison by Secure42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It sounds great, MySQL it is trying to implement many features that were missed without loosing speed.
    You can have a look to these comparison between Mysql-PostgreSQL and other open source databases.