HRWiki talk:Upgrade to MySQL 5
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[edit] Purpose
Out of curiosity, what was the purpose of this upgrade? Is it for compatibility with future releases of MediaWiki and phpBB, or...? —Soiled Bargains (talk|ctrb) 16:50, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- To stay up with the times, mainly. An immediate advantage, however, is that autopipe can be tweaked to work better with accented and non-Latin characters. Previously I had to work around certain issues with regard to that. — It's dot com 18:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)