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This talks a lot about 5.5 and mentions that 5.6 is “due out soon”. The current release series is 5.7. How much of this is outdated and how much has stayed the

This talks a lot about 5.5 and mentions that 5.6 is “due out soon”. The current release series is 5.7. How much of this is outdated and how much has stayed the same?

dsp1234 9y ago
"Some statements cannot be rolled back. In general, these include data definition language (DDL) statements, such as those that create or drop databases, those that create, drop, or alter tables or stored routines." [0] [0] - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/cannot-roll-back.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/cannot-roll-back.htm...
lstamour 9y ago
Some things are improving — for example: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/atomic-ddl.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/atomic-ddl.html And https://mysqlserverteam.com/new-defaults-in-mysql-8-0/ https://mysqlserverteam.com/new-defaults-in-mysql-8-0/ Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5122299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5122299 Personally, I only use MySQL and derivatives where I have to (basically WordPress.)