Creating new databases is similarly easy—in short, create database dbname and presto, you've got a new database named dbname. MySQL users who have privileges on *.* will have privileges to work ...

Though some MySQL developers worry that the acquisition will stifle growth in their community, others see Sun as providing reassurance to skittish IT workers Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about ...

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Although the open-source community of MySQL users is panicking over Oracle's buys of the database's transactional storage engines, enterprise users are far more sanguine, taking steps to ensure ...

MySQL is designed to let users design and manage complex applications and data sets, and has gained a substantial share of the overall DBMS market. With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun ...

Security Advisor. MySQL Databases Let Loose User Passwords. By Chris Paoli; 06/13/2012; In this edition's "Password Breach of the Week" story, news recently surfaced that an attacker could gain ...

Australian MySQL expert Arjen Lentz today said that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and the associated MySQL open-source database assets was not a problem for MySQL users.

Such utilities if present in MySQL, can really be handy for MySQL users. About Maatkit Maatkit, ... Now to interact with MySQL database, you need to install database drivers for Perl's DBI.

If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you're in luck. This article walks you through these steps, so you'll never be at a loss for that database root user password.

Once the main go-to database for developers, MySQL has lost ground to Postgres and other specialized databases. ... Flickr, and countless others—embraced MySQL to store user data and content.