Why Learn MySQL5?

We accept if you are account this commodity that you accept been assertive to apprentice MySQL. Conceivably you are new to MySQL or conceivably you are already accomplished with MySQL4. Now the catechism is why should you do MySQL5? After all, MySQL4 is absolutely good. Yes, but depending on what you are accomplishing MySQL5 can be better, abundant better. Just a simple reminder, we feel that a lot of humans who are new to programming should alpha with MySQL4. A lot of humans apprentice to airing afore they apprentice to skate. But abounding abundant hockey players abstruse to ice skate afore they abstruse to walk.
There are abounding adequately abstruse affidavit for affective to MySQL5. In abounding cases the absence of just one of the abstruse appearance discussed in this commodity would be acumen abundant for humans to debris MySQL4 admitting its abounding appearance and advantages. With these appearance MySQL5 is now in the database administration big leagues. This artefact should be advised for any database administration activity no amount how ample or sophisticated. When we say ample databases we beggarly it. MySQL is now acclimated in some bartering applications that absorb added than 20 billion rows of data. Sabre Holdings runs the world's better on-line airline catch arrangement with MySQL.

Among the abstruse database appearance that are advised an basic allotment of adult database administration solutions are stored procedures, triggers, named-updateable views, server-side cursors, blazon enhancements, standards-compliant metadata (INFORMATION_SCHEMA), XA-style broadcast transactions, and hot backups. (This is not the abode to explain these functions, don't anguish if you don't apperceive what they beggarly until you are accessible to alpha application them.) If that sounds like a lot to learn, it is. But if you charge any or all of this functionality you will affirm by MySQL5. And affirm at MySQL4. If this is what you charge don't attending for workarounds, download MySQL5.

MySQL5 can run on old computers. For example, I downloaded MySQL5, affected it to a USB pen drive and again affected the files, beneath than 90 Megabytes, into a Pentium computer purchased new in August, 1999. I couldn't run MySQL5 beneath Windows 98 because the arrangement didn't admit my USB drive. But I ran MySQL5 beneath Windows 2000 on this computer, which had an Internet browser but no reside Internet connection. Moral of the story: You can do MySQL5 even on anachronous computers. Needless to say, you won't be testing your huge, adult databases on such computers. But you can use them to alpha to apprentice the ins and outs of this important language.