This is slightly old news (from the 24th), but I didn't see anyone post about it.

MySQL 5.0 is out of the testing phase and is considered ready for production use. Version 5 boasts new features that we've been waiting for, like stored procedures and triggers. There has been talk of speed improvements, too. This is obviously the biggest release MySQL has done to date.

We're finally seeing features we've seen in other DBMS's -- about time

Note: This thread isn't intended as a DBMS-war. We don't need those "PostgreSQL" is better, "MySQL sucks" etc etc.

That really is great news. Stored procs, triggers, views... oh my! A dba's dream

Unfortunatly it'll be a while before you start seeing it in the hosting environment. Same reasons you don't see many hosts offering PHP5.

Yeah, too bad I can't wait to work with it, though

Good news. Lets wait and see.

Does it support views as well?

A lot of hosts still haven't got up to MySQL 4.3. Subselects are handy a lot of the time.

Originally Posted by alafoo

Good news. Lets wait and see.

Does it support views as well?

Yes. I forgot to link to the news page in my first post, read all about it here: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events...ticle_976.html