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 ...

Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of "database as a service" is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

Oracle has introduced JavaScript support in the MySQL database, allowing developers to write JavaScript stored programs, i.e. JavaScript functions and procedures, in the MySQL database server. Oracle ...

After MySQL community summits, an open letter urges Oracle to discuss the database's future. Do Oracle's recent announcements satisfy critics?

MySQL delivers the Department of Defense (DoD) approved Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0. As part of the STIG development, Defense Information Systems ...

Next week, MySQL plans to outline its plugin architecture that allows VARs and developers to use specialized storage and transaction engines suited for their workloads. At the MySQL’s fourth ...

What's going on with MySQL and the broader MySQL marketplace? Peter Zaitsev recently wondered if Oracle is finally killing MySQL, if not through action, then inaction. Meanwhile, another key MySQL ...

Importing MySQL databases into FileMaker Pro offers a quick-start to the development of new workgroup solutions.