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MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-into-the-big-time dept.

chicagoan writes "MySQL AB today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.0, the most significant product upgrade in the company's ten-year history. The major new version delivers advanced SQL standard-compliant features such as stored procedures, triggers, views & new pluggable storage engines. Over 30 enterprise platform and tool vendors have also expressed enthusiastic support for the new release of the world's most popular open source database."

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  1. Almost caught up to MSSQL! by tpgp · · Score: 1, Funny

    advanced SQL standard-compliant features such as stored procedures, triggers, views & new pluggable storage engines.

    All we need now is random crashes and the MS apologists will have nothing to complain about!

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  2. Innovation by chrysalis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, triggers and stored procedures. MySQL really does innovation.

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    1. Re:Innovation by choas · · Score: 5, Funny
      So there I go, looking up stored procedures on Wikipedia and it gives me this:


      Wikipedia has a problem

      Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

      Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

      (Can't contact the database server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (10.0.0.101))


      Well at least I now know you're not a troll and it DOES gave something to do with MySQL ;)

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  3. Re:no x.0 for me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean postgresql 8.0?

  4. Re:It's good, but there's better... by MourningBlade · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Oracle was thinking smart, they'd make sure InnoDB is free, or at least really cheap.

    MySQL is about the best argument out there for Oracle.

  5. Quite a news day by dtfinch · · Score: 4, Funny

    NASA drops the whole "shuttle" idea. Andy releases a new version of Minix. DrDOS steals from FreeDOS. And MySQL becomes a real database server.

  6. Unofficial slashdot MySQL thread checklist by jonfelder · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. I love MySQL!
    2. Who cares? Postgres is and always has been better.
    3. I used to use MySQL, but now I don't.
    4. I used to not use MySQL, but now I do.
    5. If you use MySQL you are stupid.
    6. If you do not use MySQL you are stupid.
    7. Only Nazis and CowboyNeal use MySQL.
    8. Did anyone say goatse.cx?