New MySQL toys
In 5.1.5:
SELECT ExtractValue(’<a>foo<b>bar</b></a>’, ‘//b’);
bar
SELECT UpdateXML(’<a>foo<b>bar</b></a>’, ‘//b’, ‘zig’);
<a>foozig</a>
XSLT implementation on its way, maybe? :)
In 5.1.6:
CREATE EVENT e
ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 DAY
ON COMPLETION PRESERVE
DO INSERT INTO log VALUES (1);
(think cron)
And:
CREATE EVENT e
ON SCHEDULE AT ‘2006-01-01 03:00:00′
ON COMPLETION NOT PRESERVE
DO OPTIMIZE TABLE foo;
(think at)
The server variable “event_scheduler” has to be set to 1 for these to work.