Oops, late catch of Monty-speak ;-). We're not working against ANSI 99 compliancy.....

for every possible use, we are always willing to help and offer

suggestions to people that is trying to use MySQL in new territories.

One of our main goals with the product is to continue to work against

getting to be ANSI 99 compliant, but without sacrificing speed or

reliability.  We are not afraid to add extensions to SQL or support for

non-SQL features if this greatly increase the usability of MySQL for a

big part of our users.  (The new @code{HANDLER} interface in MySQL 4.0

One of our main goals with the product is to continue to work towards

ANSI 99 compliancy, but without sacrificing speed or reliability.

We are not afraid to add extensions to SQL or support for non-SQL

features if this greatly increase the usability of MySQL for a big

part of our users.  (The new @code{HANDLER} interface in MySQL 4.0

is an example of this strategy. @xref{HANDLER}.)

We will continue to support transactional and not transactional