MySQL 5.1 is the latest version of the world's most popular open source database. It gives corporate developers, DBAs and ISVs an array of new enterprise features to make them more productive developing, deploying, and managing industrial strength applications.
MySQL 5.1 delivers new enterprise features, including: - ACID Transactions to build reliable and secure businesscritical applications . - Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity. - Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database leve.l - Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised - Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata. - Distributed Transactions (XA)to support complex transactions across multiple databases in heterogeneous environments.