Three years in the making, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1876702,00.asp">MySQL 5.0 was finally released</A> on Monday. MySQL AB delivers new, and long-awaited, ANSI SQL features in this latest version of the popular open-source DBMS. These new features include both read-only and updated views, stored procedures row-level triggers, both read-only and non-scrolling server-side cursors, and stored functions that rely on the SQL:2003 syntax. This is the same version of SQL that is used in IBM DB2.