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MySQL AB Calls v4.1.7 Production Ready

Posted by timothy on from the world's-fastest-recipe-book dept.

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."

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  1. Have its developers' attitudes changed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does MySQL still silently substitute its best guess when you try and insert an invalid value into a column?

    Does MySQL still silently substitute a non-ACID table type when you ask for an ACID table type and it isn't available?

    Does MySQL still silently alter the data you insert into varchar columns by stripping trailing spaces?

    MySQL used to be riddled with all kinds of behaviours that the MySQL developers thought might be handy in some circumstances, but that silently alter or ignore the programmer's/DBA's instructions and the SQL specifications. Have the developers gained enough of a clue to fix these (intentional, documented) problems?