Reporter's Notebook: With all the good news about storage engines coming out of the MySQL Users Conference, why weren't MySQL cofounders Widenius and Axmark dancing on stage, punching the air and ...

Oracle is now seeing the MySQL database user base as an opportunity, unlike two years ago, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said users of the open source product are not the people who would buy ...

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 ...

Open source database provider MySQL AB is going after enterprise users with the release of its newest version of database software which the company released on Monday. According to MySQL, support ...

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 ...

So after listening to users, at least on the MySQL side, I can see why there might be some good reasons to compare MySQL with the light databases. Theyre closer in pricing and feature set.

Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat Software isn't prompting the same level of concern among users of the MySQL open-source database as its acquisition of Innobase last October did. The reason ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require ...

If you’ve ever needed to work with MySQL, but didn’t want to have to tackle the command line, you now have the ability to manage your databases with the help of a powerful, user-friendly GUI tool.

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...