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Milestone: MySQL 5.0 now beta (5.0.3 release)

You can now download MySQL 5.0.3-beta. Horay!

Beta means “feature freeze“. No more new stuff will be added, to allow the new and changed code to stabalise as more people use it and report bugs and other quirks. It also focuses the developers’ efforts on this process.

So what’s new? Well…

  • Updatable VIEWs
  • SQL:2003 Stored Procedures and Functions
  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA (data dictionary)
  • Elementary Cursors
  • Elementary Triggers
  • Strict mode: you can now force errors (4.1 would do warnings) for out-of-range values, etc.
  • True VARCHAR support (column lengths longer than 255, and no stripping of trailing whitespace)
  • Greedy Optimizer: smarter optimisation for queries involving many-table joins
  • Federated storage engine (accessing table data in remote databases)
  • …quite a few other bits & pieces…

Of course, MySQL already had ACID transactions…. for years 😉

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  1. This is a link to the Federated Storage Engine.

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