Thread: My SQL

Web 2.0 is powered, undoubtedly, by MySQL. We have Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and many more sites/portals using MySQL. The M in the LAMP and W AMP stack refers to MySQL. It runs on platforms ranging from Linux, Windows, Mac and
different flavor of Unix. More than many open source products support MySQL as the backend database and many uses it as the default database.

For customers, MySQL is offered under a dual li¬censing scheme (refer to the article xxx) - i.e. Free without support or with commercial support. Web hosting providers have been using MySQL to offer low cost web hosting with a database. For developers, there exists MySQL native (besides ODBC) drivers for almost any of your preferred language ¬.Net, Java, C/C++, Ruby, Perl and PHP.



For a long time, MySQL had lacked support of data¬base features like stored procedures, triggers and views. But all these came into being with MySQL 5, almost two years back. Seems MySQL is all set for Web> 2.0.