Chapter 17. Supporting Features Added in MySQL 5
MySQL 5.0 introduced a number of new features that calmed down a number of developers and industry observers who were claiming that MySQL was inferior to competitors' products. Views, stored procedures, triggers, a standard information_schema
, and (more recently) a profiling mechanism are now present in the MySQL spectrum. These features are covered in this chapter.
Among the new features of MySQL 5.1, the ones that relate to a web interface (for example, partitioning and events) are supported in phpMyAdmin and are covered in this chapter as well.