With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Clustrix's CMO discusses the limitations of MySQL and how Clustrix's distributed, scale-out approach solves them.

A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole. On Monday, independent security ...

When we venture beyond the MySQL application family, we encounter some other open-source projects designed to interface with your database server. CocoaMySQL is a clean, exceedingly Mac-like piece of ...

The bottom line: MySQL didn't become the de facto database of choice for Web applications by accident. With Sun hardware optimized for MySQL and strong support, it opens up more opportunities.

Oracle announced the general availability of the MySQL 5.6 open source database. According to Oracle, with this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better ...

MySQL, SQL Server and DB2 stored procedures behave very similarly from the application's point of view. However, Oracle and Postgres calls can look and act differently, especially if your stored ...

The database chapter is primarily focused on MySQL, but it also touches on other SQL databases. In the next part of the book, these three tools--the three-tier approach, PHP and MySQL--are combined to ...

MySQL co-founders David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius touted some new 5.0 features, including support for "precision math" for financial applications; plans for a global back-up API; and ...

The vulnerability, designated CVE-2016-6662, could potentially allow an attacker “to execute arbitrary code with root privileges which would then allow them to fully compromise the server on which an ...