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 ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

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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 ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL AB, a developer of an open-source database that is used to help run Web sites, ...

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MySQL has become perhaps the most visible player in the open source database market. With revenues now at $20 million annually, the company is eyeing a greater enterprise presence with its upcoming ...

The Structured Query Language, used in the MySQL database, has great flexibility for selecting subsets of data from database tables. SQL's SELECT statement shows data from whole tables or any subset ...

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and the ...