The MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service will gain some wizardry later this year as MySQL announces the upcoming addition of "Merlin," a database monitoring and advisory service.

Open source database vendor MySQL is set to change its licensing fees and offer a yearly subscription service for its database software, in a push to penetrate into corporate data centres.

MySQL may compete for database business with IBM, but that didn't stop the two vendors from agreeing to let MySQL's namesake open-source software run on IBM's System i servers and use DB2 as a ...

The open-source database developer says the new version of its commercial subscription service will offer customers a more easily managed and cost-effective solution than its competitors.

Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems. Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a platform ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp's MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp’s MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...