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 ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the speed at which an enterprise can analyze business-critical data directly impacts its ability to compete. Time matters when it comes to mission-critical ...

As a MySQL developer, you should be at least dimly aware that MySQL supports several database formats. Find out what each is good for and how you use them. What if you were a racecar driver and could ...

Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits ...

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 its ...

Adding data handling capabilities to your application or website can make it more user-friendly and enable you to store information obtained from users. MySQL, a free software application, helps you ...

The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering. Sun Microsystems has acquired them ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...