MySQL code enhancement.

NuSphere MySQL has contributed a significant code enhancement to MySQL, providing for a database running on Linux, with more complex transactional capabilities that expand business application possibilities for MySQL.

A development team has been working on 'Gemini's code name for the development work to add a transactional storage engine providing row-level locking to MySQL. A formal release of the alpha version of MySQL Version 4.0 is due to be made available to the public later this year. The release of Gemini is being issued in accordance with the General Public License (GPL).

Additional features added to MySQL through Gemini include:--ACID transactions suitable for financial applications;--Row-level locking;--Support for features that build on row-level locking, like 'select for update'. This selects records and locks them so that they can be updated at a later date;--and Automatic crash recovery;

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"NuSphere has identified a very important technical enhancement needed to transform MySQL into an enterprise-enabled database capable of competing with commercial heavyweights," said the chief technology officer of MYSQL AB. "In MySQL's five-year history, this is the most significant contribution from a source outside MySQL AB that has occurred." www.progress.com