In June 2005, I attended LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany with other phpMyAdmin developers, where we demoed our software. At this conference, we participated to a joint celebration of PHP's and MySQL's tenth anniversary, along with the respective fathers of these products, Rasmus and Monty. A few weeks before that, at the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, a presentation was titled "PHP 5 + MySQL 5 = A Perfect 10". Indeed, we were aware of what this anniversary meant in terms of products' maturity.

The MySQL 5.0.x history spans quite a long time. Indeed, the 5.0.0 alpha version became available in December 2003, and started the round of new features with basic support for stored procedures. In the next version (5.0.1), views support was born. Information_schema appeared in version 5.0.2. Later, version 5.0.3 was labeled Beta and released in March 2005, while 5.0.13 was considered a release candidate in September 2005. A production release, 5.0.15...