MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in late October.

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

MySQL could have heightened the value of this service by letting an open-source version of Workbench run wild in the community, with all sorts of third-party modifications, plug-ins, etc.