* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN ...

Open-source players MySQL and Open-Xchange are teaming up so Open-Xchange can embed MySQL’s database into its Linux-based collaboration server. The two companies announced a partnership and support ...

There has been some discussion about MySQL's recent moves to clarify the targeting between MySQL Community Server & MySQL Enterprise Server. Essentially, MySQL wants to make it clear(er) that ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...