The latest major revision, MySQL 8, fixes a number of long-standing issues with MySQL—changes major enough to demand a revision to the left of the decimal point.

Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. In the first installment of this three-lesson tutorial, we cover everything you need to ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require ...

Grafana is one of the most widely-used data visualization tools on the market. Learn how to connect Grafana to a remote MySQL database with this tutorial.

Alternately you can compile MySQL from source. Dan Benjamin at Hive Logic has put together a nice tutorial on how to compile MySQL with instructions that will work on both Tiger and Leopard.