With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent necessity. Here are the most common options and when to use each one Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

LibreOffice Base can make working with remote MySQL databases a snap. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to make this happen. LibreOffice Base is a user-friendly GUI tool that makes working with ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

The MySQL database server software, which powers many websites and business applications, uses a dialect of the industry-standard Structured Query Language for database maintenance and transaction ...

Oracle has announced the first Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition. The aim of the new Oracle VM Template for MySQL is to help eliminate manual configuration efforts and risks by providing ...

Next week, MySQL plans to outline its plugin architecture that allows VARs and developers to use specialized storage and transaction engines suited for their workloads. At the MySQL’s fourth ...

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...