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 ...

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In May 2015, Oracle held a big event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Java. The 20th anniversary of MySQL, however, has been much quieter, perhaps reflecting its humble beginnings. MySQL was ...

The hardest part of enumerating the best reasons to use MySQL is figuring out in what order the reasons should be presented. It’s like the age-old debate about the chicken and the egg. Are MySQL’s ...

Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of ...

Marten Mickos on Oracle, software patents and making money with open source - and why his company is the Ikea of the database world... MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is unsurprised by the recent rise of ...

Several of the world's largest users of the MySQL database have committed to updating their systems to new releases — but each has left questions marks over whether they will support the ...

In the time I’ve served managing a technical consulting firm, I’ve heard my share of excuses for not using MySQL. While many of these reasons were based on misconception, there are a number of sound ...