!!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The
          driver is now GPL. If you need non-GPL licenses, please
          contact me <mark@mysql.com>.
        
          JDBC-3.0 functionality including
          Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys()
          and ResultSet.getURL().
        
Performance enchancements: Driver is now 50–100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects.
          Repackaging: New driver name is
          com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, old name still
          works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB).
        
          Better checking for closed connections in
          Statement and
          PreparedStatement.
        
          Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see
          README) Thanks to Doron.
        
          Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0
          protocol), see README for more
          information.
        
JDBC Compliance: Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests.
          Fix and sort primary key names in
          DBMetaData (SF bugs 582086 and 582086).
        
          Float types now reported as
          java.sql.Types.FLOAT (SF bug 579573).
        
          ResultSet.getTimestamp() now works for
          DATE types (SF bug 559134).
        
          ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp now
          recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to
          all zeros by MySQL (SF bug 586058).
        
Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from http://www.junit.org.
The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer.
          Added multi-host failover support (see
          README).
        
General source-code cleanup.
          Overall speed improvements via controlling transient object
          creation in MysqlIO class when reading
          packets.
        
Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
Dies ist eine Übersetzung des MySQL-Referenzhandbuchs, das sich auf dev.mysql.com befindet. Das ursprüngliche Referenzhandbuch ist auf Englisch, und diese Übersetzung ist nicht notwendigerweise so aktuell wie die englische Ausgabe. Das vorliegende deutschsprachige Handbuch behandelt MySQL bis zur Version 5.1.

