Looking to use an open source general-purpose database? This extensive comparison of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL explores the strengths and weaknesses of each.

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PostgeSQL’s foreign data wrappers, which have been used since PostgreSQL 9.1 to read data from other systems, can now also be programmed to write data to non-PostgreSQL systems as well.

Until now, to use MySQL or PostgreSQL on Azure, they would have had to spin up virtual machines to run and operate those database systems themselves.

The client programs for MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 are mysql, psql and sqlite3, respectively. I've listed several useful commands for each client in Table 1.

For this year's annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems.

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Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...

For this year's annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems.