Open-source database company MySQL launched a certification program Wednesday to assure that programmers and others are proficient with the software. Certification programs help pave the way for ...

MySQL is owned and sponsored by the Swedish firm MySQL AB, a for-profit firm. It holds the copyright to most of their code base and touts more than 11 million installations of the software worldwide.

How to Insert Commas & Quotes in MySQL. Special characters require the MySQL escape character to indicate to the server that you want to insert the characters without executing any secondary code.

Mickos, speaking at the MySQL Users Conference here on Wednesday, praised Oracle and took it to task for different elements of its software.

There’s some potentially interesting changes coming to the world of MySQL. And no, it’s got nothing to do with the recent acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Drizzle is a new project from Brian ...

Percona Server is designed to work with applications that would be too demanding for MySQL itself to support, said Peter Zaitsev, founder and CEO of Percona, a MySQL consultancy and software company.

Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun ...

MySQL AB, makers of the popular open source database MySQL, announced with Pearson VUE a new MySQL certification program. The program aims to make sure that software developers who create products ...