Reporter's Notebook: Co-founders David Axmark and Michael Widenius reflect on the open-source database's speed and reliability, and discuss the new features in MySQL 5.0.

MySQL features a Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture designed to enable users to optimize the database for their specific needs. The company delivers storage engines, such as the InnoDB engine, that ...

The at-large open-source community of MySQL users is panicking over Oracles second buy of the databases two transactional storage engines, Berkeley DB, although enterprise users are far more sanguine.

Sun closed its $1 billion purchase of MySQL in February and is hosting its first MySQL user conference this week in Santa Clara, California, where it released a near-final version of MySQL 5.1.

Exiting MySQL You’ve created a database, added a table, and injected data into the table. All that’s left is to exit MySQL with the command exit. Your database is ready to use.

MySQL users build smaller applications but then have to upgrade to Oracle, according to Shimp. “MySQL is a very rudimentary database.

Database Consolidation—Multiple source databases may be migrated to a single database for consolidation. Platform migration—Data on a local machine may be migrated to a cloud database service.

BOSTON -- Oracle is going after users of Microsoft's SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to its own MySQL database, the vendor announced Wednesday.The tool has been built ...

01/12/2010 Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering.

Microsoft is also using the cloud to court MySQL users who don’t want to migrate, having earlier reported that Azure would support MySQL databases, and its oft-used partners, Apache and PHP. Amazon ...