Developers could get a MySQL database running with minimal fuss—a contrast to heavier systems like Oracle or even PostgreSQL at the time. “It’s hard to compete with easy,” I observed in 2022.

To see a list of databases running in your MySQL instance, use the statement show databases;. This is pretty straightforward and does just what you'd think—on a new system, you'll see ...

Exiting MySQL You’ve created a database, added a table, and injected data into the table. All that’s left is to exit MySQL with the command exit. Your database is ready to use.

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security.

Oracle released updates to its MySQL HeatWave service earlier this month. The new MySQL Autopilot feature uses machine learning to automate database provisioning and optimisation tasks, making recomme ...

You can copy a MySQL database to a website using a tool such as phpMyAdmin or by using the MySQL command line. Create a new target database, export the data from the source database and import it ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

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.