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MySQL 5 Production in November

Posted by Zonk on from the new-way-to-play-with-old-toys dept.

thatoneguyfromphoeni writes "CIO.com is reporting that MySQL AB is eyeing Nov. for the production release of MySQL 5. 'The company is calling version 5 its most significant upgrade yet. It adds a handful of features considered important for enterprises that have long been available from market leaders Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Chief among them are triggers, views and stored procedures.'"

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  1. Just in time... by Martin+Blank · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sneaking in just in time before MS SQL 2005 can get out the door (or perhaps just after) is good for this.

    I recently showed the latest rev to the SQL devs here, and they were most impressed. Most of the complaints about it were gone; the new GUI is miles beyond what they had before, and the new features (views, stored procedures, better VARCHAR support) have people thinking that for smaller projects, MySQL will work out just as well as MS-SQL, and at a fraction of the cost, if any cost at all.

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