MySQL, the database with which I have dealt the most in the past few years, has just released MySQL 5. Good for them. Happy to hear it.

Now, if you’re like me, you have just barely installed MySQL 4.1 to try it out, and have yet to scratch the surface on the new functionality it provides. And while we are talking, you have just barely upgraded to Apache 2, maybe. I did that when I installed PHP5 and MySQL 4.1 because I figured I might a well upgrade all of the important components at the same time. Heck, all of my hardware is woefully out of date as well. When you’re a programmer with a family you tend to adopt the strategy “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

About the only thing that I am up-to-date on is that I am using PHP5. I know I’m ahead of the game with that because I had a terrible time finding a hosting provider that was actually running PHP5 on any of their servers, because all of the other PHP programmers’ PHP “ain’t broke”.

So to keep my rambling short, I’m glad to see that development is progressing nicely on my favorite database. Hopefully, I will be able to upgrade and start using it by the time MySQL 6 rolls around.

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