Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

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 ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...

In database management, it’s easy to assume that newer technologies are always better. While many database solutions have gained popularity in recent years, MySQL—one of the oldest and most widely ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent necessity. Here are the most common options and when to use each one Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...