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MySQL AB Calls v4.1.7 Production Ready
puppetman writes "MySQL announced a few hours ago that 4.1 has been deemed production ready with the release of 4.1.7.
The major enhancements of 4.1 include sub-selects, faster communication between client and server (thanks to parameter binding), replication over SSL, and lots more. A full list can be found here.
Time to rehash those tired arguments about why MySQL is not a real database, and (Postgres/Oracle/SQL Server/Access/SAPDB/Ingres/etc) is the only real database out there."
Now that MySQL users now talk about how much they enjoy their subselects, a feature which only a couple of years ago was being derided as just extra bloat, how long until 5.0 goes stable?
On that day, the hordes of MySQL developers will raise a chorus singing the praises of their new stored procedures, views and cursors. And behold! They didn't even slow down the product. Blessed be the MySQL programmers!
Until that day however, stored procedures are "useless" and "needlessly complex." The same with views and cursors. They only serve to slow things down. Of course those pesky naysayers of MySQL will point out that those features have been in PostgreSQL and Firebird for years. But no! Our golden calf does not yet support them in production and until it does they are obviously useless bloat.
Do you like it? I call this piece "Ode to a MySQL Fanboy."
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