We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...

* The costs of data across a WAN By Ron Nutter Q: Do different types of data have different costs of data for the same quantity? For instance, is using an equivalent amount of bandwidth, say 10Mb, ...

Percona has updated its version of MySQL so that the software’s storage engine consumes less working memory, potentially increasing its suitability for tasks requiring an in-memory database, the ...