MySQL 5 Arrives
eWeek writes, MySQL 5 Arrives
Three years in the making, MySQL 5.0 was finally released on Monday. MySQL AB delivers new, and long-awaited, ANSI SQL features in this latest version of the popular open-source DBMS.
These new features include both read-only and updated views, stored procedures row-level triggers, both read-only and non-scrolling server-side cursors, and stored functions that rely on the SQL:2003 syntax. This is the same version of SQL that is used in IBM DB2.
Database programmers of the world, rejoice! 
MySQL 5.0 will allow programmers to make the code which runs web sites and other applications less expensive to write and maintain.
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