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MySQL databases can be accessed using the [[programming language|programming languages]] [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]], [[Eiffel programming language|Eiffel]], [[Java programming language|Java]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python programming language|Python]], and [[Tcl]]; for each of these, a specific [[API]] is available. An [[ODBC]] interface called MyODBC is also available.

A development version of MySQL 4.1, containing support for "Sub-SELECTs" was released in January 2003. Version 4.1 also contains support for UTF-8.

Despite the official pronunciation of SQL being "sequel", the common pronunciation of MySQL is "My S-Q-L", and not "My-Sequel".

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In August 2001, a test version of the [[Wikipedia]] software using [[PHP programming language|PHP]] and MySQL appeared; in January 2002 it was adopted as the new software running Wikipedia. See the [[wikipedia:PHP script|Wikipedia PHP script]] page. In May 2003, this code base was [[m:Upgrade to MySQL 4.0|upgraded to MySQL version 4.0.12]] from the previous version 3.x.

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