If you have avoided using MySQL in the past due to its lack of support for stored procedures, here’s good news. The latest developer release of MySQL (MySQL 5.0) supports stored procedures. Drum roll, please! If you want to jog your memory before you begin to create those cretins or want to know more about them, read on. In this article, we'll learn what stored procedures are and create our first stored procedure in MySQL and learn some useful commands while we're at it.