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At one point last year, it looked as if the popular open-source MySQL database was in danger of having no user conference. Now it has two. Oracle announced Thursday that it has launched MySQL Connect, ...

Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering. In a Data ...

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 ...

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 have an IIS6 box w/ PHP installed. One of the php pages requires a connection to a remote MySQL 5 box (same subnet, so no fw issues).<BR><BR>With this same user on the MySQL box itself, I can ...

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 ...

Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6, the world's most popular open-source database. With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps ...

Open source database provider MySQL AB is going after enterprise users with the release of its newest version of database software which the company released on Monday. According to MySQL, support for ...

Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering. In a Data ...