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 ...

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 ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the speed at which an enterprise can analyze business-critical data directly impacts its ability to compete. Time matters when it comes to mission-critical ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

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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 remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...