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 ...

Vulnerabilities that could bring down online databases all over the internet have been discovered over the weekend, prompting developers to scramble to respond.

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.

MySQL is easier to learn and to use, compared to other databases. You don’t have to spend as much time and money either training existing staff, or hiring developers with fancy certifications.

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 ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost even though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch in a new report from ...

Looking to use an open source general-purpose database? This extensive comparison of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL explores the strengths and weaknesses of each.