MySQL Version 4.1 has been certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment. This significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration tools, and support for international character sets and geographic data. As more and more people take on the task of managing hosted websites for themselves in the form of blogs and smaller e-commerce sites, the ease-of-use of my SQL becomes more critical.
Thankfully there are a lot more resources to learn about it than there were five years ago, and we’ve posteed pointers to several of them over the last year.
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the GIS bits are very preliminary, not much to write home about.