MySQL provides three data types for text storage elements: CHAR, VARCHAR and TEXT. Which is easiest and fastest to work with? The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three ...

vice president of marketing for MySQL AB, the Swedish maker of an open-source database platform. "If someone needs the advanced grid capabilities, they should buy that from Oracle." If ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona ...

when Oracle bought Innobase, a small company supplying an important component of the MySQL open-source database. Now MySQL has a plan to calm any lingering nerves. The upstart database company is ...

Learn More. I spoke with Nipun Agarwal, SVP of Research & Advanced Development at Oracle, about the advances in MySQL HeatWave, and his forecasts the future of the database sector. Among the ...