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.
Supporting views
MySQL 5.0 introduced support for named and updatable views (more details are available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/views.html ...
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