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.

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.

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

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 ...

Hackers could access your database in seconds.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 ...

Affected database software include MySQL 5.5.51 and earlier, 5.6.32 and earlier, and 5.7.14 and earlier; Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 and earlier, 5.6.32-78-1 and earlier, and 5.7.14-8 and earlier ...

MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) environments. However, MariaDB has gained popularity as an alternative.

If your site's data is stored in a database -- for example, using a database management system such as MySQL -- you may face the task of presenting the data within your Web pages.