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 ...

This week, the company will unveil a new VAR program, designed to better entrench the database in businesses of all sizes, and long-anticipated clustering technology, which stands to make the database ...

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 ...

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more ...

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 ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...

Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments MySQL, MariaDB, ...

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular database software MySQL that could allow attackers to crash the service and deny access to users. Although researchers initially ...

There may be times when you'll want to copy a MySQL database to a website. For example, if you are going to make changes to your company website, you should edit a copy of the site, not the live ...

More than 500 developers are urging Oracle to consider a vendor-neutral foundation for MySQL, warning that limited community ...