The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. MySQL Connector/Net software installation. Once the ADO driver has been installed, you'll then need to download some PowerShell code that's already been ...

To those uninitiated in how databases work, setting up MySQL for the first time can be daunting. Nevertheless, with a few pointers and concepts, you can quickly get a new MySQL instance up and ...

The MySQL Database can be used to create a free online or offline mailing list. A basic mailing list database contains two tables. One table contains the name, email address, street address and ...

One of his company’s clients is still running an application on MySQL 3.23.58, which effectively goes “end of life” at the end of this year, according to MySQL’s timeline.

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities.

Merging MySQL Tables With phpMyAdmin. PhpMyAdmin is used as the backend database interface for a number of leading content management systems deployed by businesses, including WordPress, Joomla ...

1. MySQL One of the most useful database management tools is MySQL. MySQL is used by top companies like Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, PayPal and Twitter, just to name a few.