Does MySQL have time-based triggers?

Question

I would like to execute a procedure periodically, how to do that in MySQL?

Answer 1

MySQL allow this with the Event Scheduler : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/events.html

Answer 2

If you have MySQL 5.1 you can use events.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/events.html