MySQL 5.0.89 (Open Source)

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that has more than 6 million installations. MySQL stands for "My Structured Query Language". The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.MySQL project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems. As of 2009 Oracle Corporation began the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems.MySQL is often used in free software projects that require a full-featured database management system, such as WordPress, phpBB and other software built on the LAMP software stack. It is also used in very high-scale World Wide Web products including Wikipedia, Google and Facebook
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MySQL delivers enterprise features, including:

• Partitioning to improve performance and management of very large database environments
• Row-based/Hybrid Replication for improved replication security
• Event Scheduler to create and schedule jobs that perform various database tasks
• XPath Support
• Dynamic General/Slow Query Log
• Performance/Load Testing Utility (mysqlslap)
• Improved! Full Text Search (faster, new dev templates)
• Improved! Archive engine (better compression, more features)
• Improved! User session and problem SQL identification
• Improved! MySQL embedded library (libmysqld)
• Additional INFORMATION_SCHEMA objects
• Faster data import operations (parallel file load)
• ACID Transactions to build reliable and secure business critical applications
• Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity
• Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database level
• Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised
• Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata
• Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture for maximum flexibility
• Archive Storage Engine for historical and audit data

MySQL 5.0.89 Improvements:

+ Bugs fixed:

•  Privileges for stored routines were ignored for mixed-case routine names. (Bug#48872) See also Bug#41049.
•  Building MySQL on Fedora Core 12 64-bit would due to errors in comp_err. (Bug#48864)
•  DISTINCT was ignored for queries with GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP and only const tables. (Bug#48475)
•  Loose index scan was inappropriately chosen for some WHERE conditions. (Bug#48472)
•  A bad typecast could cause query execution to allocate large amounts of memory. (Bug#48458)
•  mysql_secure_installation did not work on Solaris. (Bug#48086)
•  When running mysql_secure_installation, the command would fail if the root password contained multiple spaces, \, # or quote characters. (Bug#48031)
•  InnoDB did not disallow creation of an index with the name GEN_CLUST_INDEX, which is used internally. (Bug#46000)
•  Use of InnoDB monitoring (SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS or one of the InnoDB Monitor tables) could cause a server crash due to invalid access to a shared variable in a concurrent environment. (Bug#38883)
•  Output from mysql --html did not encode the <, >, or & characters. (Bug#27884)