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 ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

To install the MySQL database, you must first download the community edition of MySQL 5.0 database for Windows. There are three versions: Windows Essentials (x86), Windows (x86) ZIP/Setup.EXE and ...

If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you’re in luck. This article walks you through these steps, so you’ll never be at a loss for that database root user password. You may have ...

As a MySQL developer, you should be at least dimly aware that MySQL supports several database formats. Find out what each is good for and how you use them. What if you were a racecar driver and could ...

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MariaDB database server and phpMyAdmin on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu MariaDB is a fork of the wildly popular open source database MySQL. Although MariaDB is ...