It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc. MySQL is an RDMS (Relational Database ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server ... and MySQL (it's how you do high availability), and because failover for a DR database is nearly always manual, you don't have the same problems ...

Also, although DB-Engines also ranked MySQL high, at No. 2, its No. 3-ranked database, SQL Server, was relegated to the "Other" category in the ScaleGrid report. "So, which databases are most popular ...