In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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Magister Ludi, a human-factors centered software and training house based in Milan, Italy, has released YourSQL version 1.0, a free, open source Mac OS X application ...

MySQL, one of the high-profile open source vendors, will hold its MySQL Users Conference 2005 event next week in Santa Clara, Calif. In addition to tutorials listed as “Sold Out” by MySQL, the agenda ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

In this edition's "Password Breach of the Week" story, news recently surfaced that an attacker could gain access to MySQL databases thanks to a flaw that will verify an incorrect password as correct.

MySQL plans to include enterprise-level technology from SAP in its own open source database, after announcing Tuesday the acquisition of rights to SAP’s database, SAP DB. The two companies will work ...

Hundreds of MySQL databases were hit in ransomware attacks, which were described as “an evolution of the MongoDB ransomware attacks.” In January, there were tens of thousands of MongoDB installs ...