increased the speed of MySQL Server in a number of areas, such as bu lk INSERT statements, searching on packed indexes, full-text searching (using FULLTEXT in dexes), and COUNT(DISTINCT) 7/94
as standard • The InnoDB storage engine began to be offered as a standard feature of the MySQL serv er. This provided full support for ACID transactions, foreign keys with cascading UPDAT E and DELETE, and row-level locking as standard features. See Section 13.2, “The InnoD B Storage Engine” 8/94
from other database systems to MySQL Server include TRUN CATE TABLE (as in Oracle) and identity as a synonym for automatically incremented keys (a s in Sybase). 12/94
that MySQL 4.0 added support for a new character set, l atin1_de, which ensures that words with umlauts are sorted in the same order as in Germ an telephone books. 15/94
most mysqld parameters (startup options) can be set without taking do wn the server. This is a convenient feature for database administrators. See Section 12. 4.4, “SET Syntax”. 16/94
handling at the database level was enabled by default. On Uni x, the MyISAM storage engine added support for symbolic linking at the table level (and n ot just the database level as before). 20/94
the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and FOUND_ROWS() [815] functions made it poss ible to find out the number of rows a SELECT query that includes a LIMIT clause would ha ve returned without that clause. 21/94
added in this release can easily be used to create standalo ne and embedded applications. The embedded server provides an alternative to using MySQ L in a client/server environment. 24/94