Comments on: MySQL 5 Closing in on Gold

By: chrisb

chrisb — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

“This release brings the MySQL feature-set to the same competitive level as its peers both proprietary and open source”

please correct me if I’m wrong, but its still lacking full transaction support isn’t it? I was/am under the impression rollback isn’t going to be implemented?

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

MySQL 5 seems to have quite a jump in the number of features. I look foward to it.

By: ct_roy

ct_roy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

hopefull, now the critics will treat mysql as an equal to the ‘big boys’

By: bwarrene

bwarrene — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

ChrisB - it may not be precisely the same as the Oracle or MS SQL methods - but we already have transactional abilities in MySQL 4.1x and above using InnoDB tables. We can turn off autocommit - which runs by default in MySQL - and then either commit ro rollback inserts.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/commit.html

By: ben332211

ben332211 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

please correct me if I'm wrong, but its still lacking full transaction support isn't it? I was/am under the impression rollback isn't going to be implemented?

This has been in MySQL for a while, as bwarrene said.. You just need to use InnoDB Tables. :)