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 ...

MySQL's Marten Mickos says that coming under the Sun Microsystems umbrella will not change the interaction between his company and its user community.

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 ...

MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu If you've got 15 minutes, we can show you the ropes of basic MySQL management.

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 ...

Open-source database software maker MySQL AB warned users to tighten security yesterday after reports of a new Internet worm that targets its popular database. The company is also looking at ...

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 ...

Reporter's Notebook: Co-founders David Axmark and Michael Widenius reflect on the open-source database's speed and reliability, and discuss the new features in MySQL 5.0.

Although the open-source community of MySQL users is panicking over Oracle's buys of the database's transactional storage engines, enterprise users are far more sanguine, taking steps to ensure ...

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 ...