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Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

darthcamaro writes "Two years after Sun released MySQL 5.1, Oracle has picked up the ball with the official release of MySQL 5.5. New features include semi-synchronous replication, InnoDB by default and new SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for exception handling. Above all, Oracle stressed that they are committed to further MySQL open source development and that they see it as a complementary technology to their proprietary Oracle database."

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  1. Yeah right. by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle is absolutely and steadfastly committed to Open Source, as seen from their admirable interaction with the OpenOffice.org and Java communities.

  2. Re:From the article.... by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I absolutely needed 100% data integrity, I'd write my own server. And I certainly wouldn't use SQL.

  3. Re:From the article.... by nxtw · · Score: 5, Funny

    When's the last time you lost data with mysql that was directly attributable to the database, and not to a messed-up query or a hardware or network problem?

    On 0000-00-00 00:00:00, of course.

  4. Re:From the article.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I've written multithreaded servers that have run for months without leaking as well. That's got fuck-all to do with data integrity as a general concept, but I was hoping we could jerk each other off for a little while since you seem to be in a self-congratulatory mood.

  5. Re:You have nothing to fear. by should_be_linear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only counterpart to Access I can think of would be if Fisher-Price and BP created DB engine together.

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