The European Union is not the only one antsy about Oracle taking possession of the open source MySQL database should the commercial database giant’s merger with Sun Microsystems get final approval. So ...

MySQL users are cautiously optimistic about life under Oracle, but say Larry Ellison’s team needs to offer a more detailed road map for development of the open source database. Under Sun Microsystems, ...

The MySQL community is mostly neutral or positive about the open-source database's prospects under Oracle's stewardship, according to a newly released study. The MySQL community is mostly neutral or ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The at-large open-source community of MySQL users is ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

Oracle Corp. this month bought Sleepycat Software Inc., its second acquisition in the past five months of a company offering technology that can be used as a storage engine for the MySQL open-source ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...

How to connect LibreOffice Base to a remote MySQL database Your email has been sent LibreOffice Base can make working with remote MySQL databases a snap. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...