MySQL makes the popular database of the same name. Its ascent - five million active installations and counting - has helped the company double revenues each year since 2002.

Opinion: Not to pick on MySQL or anything, but does it really makes sense to compare it to the light versions of proprietary databases? I thought not, but MySQL users say I'm all wet.

MySQL is the clear category leader in open-source databases; it's the "M" in the LAMP stack that also includes Linux, the Apache Web server, and the Python, Perl, and PHP scripting languages.

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

Oracle's recent release of MySQL 8.0 adds NoSQL features that appeal to the next generation of cloud-native developers.

Securing your MySQL installation isn't difficult. Find out how to easily harden MySQL with one command. Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two.

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 ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table.

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB ...