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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. new version? so what? by diablobsb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and postgres still beats it down nicely...

    "wow! now we have stored procedures and triggers!"

    Wake me up when Mysql does something really inovative and when it beats at ANYTHING other than speed on simple "table-like" databases.

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