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 ...

A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end ...

How to connect LibreOffice Base to a remote MySQL database Your email has been sent LibreOffice Base can make working with remote MySQL databases a snap. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to ...

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 ...

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

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 ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

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 ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...