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 ...

The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

And to capture the complete details of activity audits from the world’s most widely used relational database management system, McAfee releases a free downloadable audit plug-in for MySQL.

MySQL database supports auto-increment of a primary column with which a unique primary key value is assigned by the database automatically for each new row of data.

What’s more, many old-school relational databases, MySQL and MariaDB among them, took a page from the NoSQL book and added JSON support as a standard feature. The net effect is NoSQL when you ...

Image: Nicolas Picard More than 85,000 MySQL databases are currently on sale on a dark web portal for a price of only $550/database. The portal, brought to ZDNet 's attention earlier today by a ...

Most users are probably on a relatively recent version by now, such as MySQL 4.1, he said. In addition, releases as old as MySQL 3.23 are not updated often at this point anyway, he noted.

Performance Database performance encompasses many factors, such as query optimization, configuration, indexing and caching. MySQL Beyond those factors, one of MySQL's main selling points is the ...

MySQL has published its first “end of life” timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said ...