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You Make MySQL 5.0 Rock!

Message to the Community

Your MySQL Team has been hard at work developing MySQL 5.0. Based on your requests we have added key features including Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Information Schema, and much more.

We are now asking the MySQL Community to help us achieve the quality and reliability that you expect and have come to depend on. To encourage your active participation, we have created this contest. And, we have chosen prizes that are sure to please!

Winners will be selected based on the bugs filed and blogs written about MySQL 5.0

Kaj Arnö, VP Community

MySQL 5.0 Key Features

Stored Procedures (docs, article, forum)
Triggers (docs, article, forum)
Views (docs, article, forum)
Information Schema (docs, article, forum)
Archive Storage Engine (docs, article, forum)

Developer Articles

php|architect's Guide to PHP Security
php|architect's Guide to PHP Security, a book by PHP developer Ilia Alshanetsky (Marco Tabini & Associates, September 2005, ISBN 0973862106), discusses the important topic of how to make PHP applications secure. Chapter 3, for which the MySQL Developer Zone received permission to reprint, covers "SQL Injection". Read More »
Dispelling the Myths
As anyone will tell you, competition is a good thing because it gives you a choice. Acquiring current and accurate information about your options enables you to spend your time and money in the most efficient way and is certainly time well spent. Read More »
An Atlas for Ireland's Artists (using MySQL GIS)
Portraits of Ireland Ltd is a web based Irish company aiming to help connect the diaspora to people and places in Ireland through Art. This startup company required an online interactive atlas to assist both artists and those commissioning their work to find not only the island's more well known locations but also its remote and smaller place locations. To this end an Artist Atlas was created. Some of the primary requirements were a cartographically rich, atheistically pleasing vector based system, fully searchable, and with as extensive a database as possible. Read More »
The MySQL 5.0 Archive Storage Engine
More than at any other time, database professionals are being aggressively challenged by mushrooming volumes of data in corporate business systems. While some industry analysts project data growth at an average rate of 42% a year, that figure is conservative in some installations where growth rates are several hundred percent, with no end in sight. Read More »