Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Before you can use Oracle SQL Developer or MySQL Workbench, you need to connect to a database server. Both tools support various types of connections, such as JDBC, ODBC, SSH, or cloud services.

MySQL users start looking at alternatives A key issue is that Oracle is a main competitor to MySQL, notes Timothy Dion, CTO of mobile and Web apps builder Sensei. “I’m very concerned about ...

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

A user, for instance, can use SQL to extract all the memory performance metrics around a specific database table. MySQL Workbench 6.1, which Oracle also released on Monday, ...

Migrating from Oracle to MySQL can be a challenging task, especially if you have a large and complex database with many dependencies, customizations, and features. However, with the right tools ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

Is MySQL HeatWave really Oracle’s killer app? Maybe I was being a little hyperbolic with my blog title. But MySQL HeatWave was revolutionary from the moment Oracle released it in late 2020.

In addition to making MySQL HeatWave on AWS relatively easy to set up, Oracle also makes promises and statements about performance and cost. Based on a standard TPC-H benchmark run by Oracle, MySQL ...