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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

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 ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of connecting the DBeaver GUI tool to a remote MySQL server. If you manage a database server, you are probably always in search of a tool to make that process ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

MariaDB announced MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status, bringing together a year of rapid innovation into a rock-solid, production-ready package maintained for the ...