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The following features are implemented in MySQL 5.0.
BIT Data Type: See Section 11.2, “Numeric Types”.
Cursors: Elementary support. See Section 19.2.11, “Cursors”.
Data Dictionary (Information Schema): See Chapter 22, The
INFORMATION_SCHEMAInformation Database.Instance Manager: Can be used to start and stop the MySQL Server, even from a remote host. See Section 5.2, “The MySQL Instance Manager”.
Precision Math: See Chapter 23, Precision Math.
Stored Procedures: See Chapter 19, Stored Procedures and Functions.
Strict Mode and Standard Error Handling: See Section 5.3.2, “The Server SQL Mode” and Chapter 26, Error Handling in MySQL.
Triggers: See Chapter 20, Triggers.
VARCHAR Data Type: True
VARCHARsupport. Maximum effective length ofVARCHARis 65,532 bytes now, and no stripping of trailing whitespace occurs. See Section 11.4.1, “TheCHARandVARCHARTypes”.Views: See Chapter 21, Views and Section 1.7.5.6, “Views”.
The News section of this manual includes a more in-depth list of features. See Section D.1, “Changes in release 5.0.x (Development)”.
For those wishing to take a look at the bleeding edge of MySQL development, we make our BitKeeper repository for MySQL publicly available. See Section 2.8.3, “Installing from the Development Source Tree”.
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