This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

In database management, it’s easy to assume that newer technologies are always better. While many database solutions have gained popularity in recent years, MySQL—one of the oldest and most widely ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

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 ...

Whereas MySQL has been mainly a web database, PostgreSQL has been used more in enterprise environments where transactional workloads are the focus. These situations oftentimes require that PostgreSQL ...

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 ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...