Starting with this version, all MySQL distributions will be
            configured, compiled and tested with
            crash-me and the benchmarks on the
            following platforms: SunOS 5.6 sun4u, SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u,
            SunOS 4.14 sun4c, SunOS 5.6 i86pc, Irix 6.3 mips5k, HP-UX
            10.20 hppa, AIX 4.2.1 ppc, OSF/1 V4.0 alpha, FreeBSD 2.2.2
            i86pc and BSDI 3.1 i386.
          
            Fix COUNT(*) problems when the
            WHERE clause didn't match any records.
            (Bug from 3.21.17.)
          
            Removed that NULL = NULL is true. Now you
            must use IS NULL or IS NOT
            NULL to test whether a value is
            NULL. (This is according to SQL-99 but
            may break old applications that are ported from
            mSQL.) You can get the old behaviour by
            compiling with -DmSQL_COMPLIANT.
          
            Fixed bug that core dumped when using many LEFT
            OUTER JOIN clauses.
          
            Fixed bug in ORDER BY on string formula
            with possible NULL values.
          
            Fixed problem in range optimiser when using
            <= on sub index.
          
            Added functions DAYOFYEAR(),
            DAYOFMONTH(), MONTH(),
            YEAR(), WEEK(),
            QUARTER(), HOUR(),
            MINUTE(), SECOND() and
            FIND_IN_SET().
          
            Added SHOW VARIABLES command.
          
Added support of ``long constant strings'' from SQL-99:
mysql> SELECT 'first ' 'second';       -> 'first second'
Upgraded Msql-Mysql-modules to 1.1825.
            Upgraded mysqlaccess to 2.02.
          
            Fixed problem with Russian character set and
            LIKE.
          
Ported to OpenBSD 2.1.
New Dutch error messages.
This is a translation of the MySQL Reference Manual that can be found at dev.mysql.com. The original Reference Manual is in English, and this translation is not necessarily as up to date as the English version.

