MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use

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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Please use one of the following stable mirrors

[sl4shd0rk]

ftp://mirrors.sco.com/mysql/sold/out/like/cheap/wh ore/stable
ftp://www.scox.com/we/got/another/sucker/stable
ftp://mysql.scox.com/bruce/perens/go/home/stable

Re:stored procs and triggers, finally

[khchung]

Wow! I haven't seen such astroturfing PR POS for sometime (and by AC too), whoever modded parent insightful/informative must not know much about databases.

Let's see...

One of the challenges of MySQL 5 was precisely to get closer to the SQL:2003 standard.

Isn't that exactly the point of the grandparent? Yup, MySQL maybe getting "closer" (whatever that means) to a standard, but the point is they did not start out being actually compliant to any SQL standard at all! Which means precisely that a developer cannot "start working safe in the knowledge ... you're working with a normal "SQL" database."

Consider the MySQL stored procedures for example : their syntax is probably one of the most respectful of the norm today.

Ugh... (too nauseated from the PR line to say anything more)

Let me address just one more point.

And don't come arguing that MySQL should implement "all of the standard or none of it" because you know pretty well it is not possible for a young RDBMS like this...

Which is just a confirmation of the grandparent's point: "MySQL, while posing as SQL, has little if anything in common".