Oracle SQL Developer and MySQL Workbench also offer many additional features that can enhance your database development experience. For example, you can use the debugger to debug and test your ...

MySQL Workbench 6.1, which Oracle also released on Monday, includes a set of new graphical diagnostic tools based on these new memory probes.

MySQL and Oracle are two popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) that support transactions, which are units of work that must be executed atomically, consistently, isolated, and ...

Oracle “has as many compelling business reasons to continue the ramp-up of the MySQL business as Sun Microsystems and MySQL previously did, or even more,” he wrote.

If Oracle does something that sort of makes it look like MySQL’s days are numbered or something is going to change that we don’t like, we’ll probably look at alternatives,” says Ernest ...

Percona continues to nip at Oracle's heels, releasing a free version of the open-source MySQL 5.6 database with advanced features similar to ones in Oracle's paid enterprise edition.

Oracle Chief Larry Ellison might become a friend of open source, after all, if it helps him get at his long-time enemy, Microsoft. Sun acquired MySQL last year for $1 billion.