Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5

darthcamaro writes "Two years after Sun released MySQL 5.1, Oracle has picked up the ball with the official release of MySQL 5.5. New features include semi-synchronous replication, InnoDB by default and new SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for exception handling. Above all, Oracle stressed that they are committed to further MySQL open source development and that they see it as a complementary technology to their proprietary Oracle database."

Yeah right.

[Arancaytar]

Oracle is absolutely and steadfastly committed to Open Source, as seen from their admirable interaction with the OpenOffice.org and Java communities.

Re:From the article....

[tomhudson]

If I absolutely needed 100% data integrity, I'd write my own server. And I certainly wouldn't use SQL.

Re:From the article....

[nxtw]

When's the last time you lost data with mysql that was directly attributable to the database, and not to a messed-up query or a hardware or network problem?

On 0000-00-00 00:00:00, of course.

Re:From the article....

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, I've written multithreaded servers that have run for months without leaking as well. That's got fuck-all to do with data integrity as a general concept, but I was hoping we could jerk each other off for a little while since you seem to be in a self-congratulatory mood.

Re:You have nothing to fear.

[should_be_linear]

Only counterpart to Access I can think of would be if Fisher-Price and BP created DB engine together.