MySQL 5.0 Release Candidate Available

It’s been a long time coming but the wait is nearly over (and well worth it). If you haven’t been following MySQL 5.0 development very closely …

… the MySQL 5.0 Release Candidate has the following major new features:

Views (both read-only and updatable views)

Stored Procedures and Stored Functions

Triggers

Server-side cursors (read-only, non-scrolling)

Precision math

Larger VARCHARS (up to 64kb)

ARCHIVE storage engine

FEDERATED storage engine

I could write a lot more about several of those and may do so at some point. If you’ve been waiting for any of those features, give 5.0 a try. They’re looking to get all of those last minute bugs squashed ASAP.

More details available in MySQL 5.0 in a Nutshell. Give it a try!

Oh, and speaking of open source… Check out Open Source Goes Corporate in this week’s InformationWeek. I had a chance to talk with Larry a few weeks about how much MySQL, Apache, FreeBSD, PHP, Linux, and other Open Source software we use at Yahoo!

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