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 ...

Clustrix's CMO discusses the limitations of MySQL and how Clustrix's distributed, scale-out approach solves them.

Oracle announced the general availability of the MySQL 5.6 open source database. According to Oracle, with this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better ...

When we venture beyond the MySQL application family, we encounter some other open-source projects designed to interface with your database server. CocoaMySQL is a clean, exceedingly Mac-like piece of ...

A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole. On Monday, independent security ...

MySQL, SQL Server and DB2 stored procedures behave very similarly from the application's point of view. However, Oracle and Postgres calls can look and act differently, especially if your stored ...

MySQL co-founders David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius touted some new 5.0 features, including support for "precision math" for financial applications; plans for a global back-up API; and ...

The database chapter is primarily focused on MySQL, but it also touches on other SQL databases. In the next part of the book, these three tools--the three-tier approach, PHP and MySQL--are combined to ...

A researcher has discovered a critical security flaw in the world's most widely used open-source database application — one that could allow hackers to completely take over a web server.

Two software rights organizations and a software freedom activist wrote in an open letter to the E.U. that it should not allow Oracle to acquire MySQL because of the potential harm, while MySQL's ...