On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:46, Travis Roy wrote: > > - You can define triggers (MySQL can't do this). > > From: http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql/ > > "Stored procedures and triggers > > Stored procedures allow you to create functions and subroutines > that run on the server. This makes it possible to grant access to > specific queries without granting carte blanche access to the underlying > data, or validate data in the database before it is stored. Triggers can > be configured to fire when certain conditions are fulfilled. > > The MySQL database server will provide hooks for implementing > stored procedures in multiple languages, as well as including support > for the Persistent Stored Modules syntax defined as part of ANSI SQL-99. > > Support for stored procedures was added in version 5.0, and support > for triggers will be added in version 5.1." > > Plus they have some documentation for it already. > > http://www.mysql.com/documentation/maxdb/a7/41ee0b605911d3a98800a0c9449261/content.htm > > A friend of mine that uses MySQL says that it's in the dev version already.
Interesting! I had not heard that they were planning to support triggers too. Thanks for pointing that out. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
