> - stored procedure support. Stored procedures are little programs that > can be run as database queries that can be useful for > standardising writes and complicated reads. Not to start a war but there is a school of thought that stored procs suck. Google for it and you'll find a host of debates on the issue...
> - native transaction support. If you need to store a series of data rows > in a complicated sequence and something goes wrong in the middle > of > the sequence, if you've used a "transaction" you can > "rollback" that transaction automatically to the state it was > in before you started the sequence. use innodb tables I think
