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 ...

Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent necessity. Here are the most common options and when to use each one Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent ...

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

LibreOffice Base can make working with remote MySQL databases a snap. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to make this happen. LibreOffice Base is a user-friendly GUI tool that makes working with ...

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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 ...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

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 the ...