MySQL plans to include enterprise-level technology from SAP in its own open source database, after announcing Tuesday the acquisition of rights to SAP’s database, SAP DB. The two companies will ...

MySQL became the M in LAMP, the de facto standard used to build web-facing systems, which also included the Linux operating system, Apache web server, and programming languages Perl, PHP, or Python.

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL ...

MySQL’s widespread legacy use means it will remain relevant, but new projects are increasingly likely to choose something else, whether that’s PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or whatever you prefer.

MySQL Adds Scalability to Open Source Database. By John K. Waters; 04/24/09; The same week Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, MySQL, one of Sun's own recent ...

To connect to a database in PHP, you use the connect function from the module that is specific to your database brand. For example, to connect to a MySQL database located on your Web server, you ...

The release of MySQL 9.0 has not assuaged those concerns, said colleague Dave Stokes, Percona technology evangelist. It had not lived up to the previous 8.0 release, which arrived with many new ...

Amazon is expanding its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure with a new offering based on the open source MySQL database system. The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows users to ...

Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQL. The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in ...

Launched in 1995 to serve small- to mid-sized web applications, it quickly grew in capability as these applications scaled into global platforms. Today, MySQL consistently ranks among the top ...