While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...

Oracle is now seeing the MySQL database user base as an opportunity, unlike two years ago, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said users of the open source product are not the people who would buy Oracle ...

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, ...

Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun Microsystems’ acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL’s credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using ...

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Sun has announced the official release of MySQL 5.1, a new version of the popular open source database software. Although Sun has declared that this version is ready for widespread adoption in ...

Open-source database software maker MySQL AB warned its users to tighten security yesterday after reports of a new Internet worm that targets its popular relational database, according to a company ...

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 ...

Ever since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, MySQL users have been nervous about Oracle's commitment to the open source database, given Oracle's own database product line. At the O'Reilly MySQL Conference ...

Open source database software maker MySQL AB warned its users to tighten security Thursday, after news broke about a new Internet worm that targets Windows computers running the popular relational ...

MySQL's Marten Mickos says that coming under the Sun Microsystems umbrella will not change the interaction between his company and its user community. Charles Cooper was an executive editor at CNET ...