The European Union is not the only one antsy about Oracle taking possession of the open source MySQL database should the commercial database giant’s merger with Sun Microsystems get final approval. So ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

New community initiative aims to support MySQL users around best practices, future developments, and knowledge sharingRALEIGH, N.C., May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today marks the launch of The ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...

In its next version, the open source database addresses long-standing issues like Unicode support and the app's more accident-prone innards The development team for the open source MySQL database ...

Percona is launching The OurSQL Foundation, an open organization that will support the community of users, developers, and companies that are invested in the success of MySQL.