MySQL is a popular open source database and one of the top relational databases-and with good reason. It is an extremely feature-rich and powerful database platform. With all its positives, however, ...

According to Tocker, “JSON support was perhaps the most well received feature of MySQL 5.7, and with MySQL 8.0 we have expanded it with a number of useful additions. In terms of SQL Functions, we have ...

GenieDB's Globally Distributed MySQL-as-a-Service technology allows organizations to build large scale, multi-region, multi-master, high performance applications with the benefits of geographical ...

Typically, MySQL starts hitting disk when table sizes start exceeding more than 100 million rows or so, he said. “So if you live outside of that 100 million-row size, you need to really look at ...

Sept. 13, 2016 at 2:10 a.m. PT Symantec A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole.

The MySQL database is widely used for online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, managing data generated by retail, financial and other operational applications that underpin many business ...

The MySQL database, which runs on Windows, Linux and Unix, costs $495 per server in commercial-license form, which is less expensive than Oracle or even Microsoft rivals.

This new version of MySQL has demonstrated the ability to respond to 512,000 read-only queries per second (qps), more than twice 250,000 read-only QPS that MySQL 5.6 was capable of performing.

MySQL 5.5 will also support the ANSI/ISO SQL standard method of programmatically returning errors inside SQL procedures, called Signal/Resignal, which some users have called for.

The database chapter is primarily focused on MySQL, but it also touches on other SQL databases. In the next part of the book, these three tools--the three-tier approach, PHP and MySQL--are combined to ...