One of the most expected enhancements of MySQL 5 is the support to stored procedures.
Most high-end relational database systems already supported a stored procedures language for a long time.
This was one enhancement that MySQL 5 provides, nailing one of the remaining objections that high end relational database system fans used to not consider MySQL a serious option.
This class provides means to simplify the creation, alteration, dropping and listing of stored procedures under MySQL 5.