With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

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It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

The MySQL relational database serves as a back end for millions of websites, and powers millions of non-Internet data-handling applications. In 2009 ownership of MySQL passed to Oracle when it bought ...

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026 Users have six months to migrate from ...

It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around open source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well. Gordon Haff is Red ...

You'd think the advent of 'webscale' NoSQL databases would have consigned MySQL to history. But you'd be very wrong MySQL is a bit of an attention hog. With relational databases supposedly put on ...

How to connect to a remote MySQL database with DBeaver Your email has been sent If you manage a database server, you are probably always in search of a tool to make that process a bit easier. If your ...

Grafana needs data to be useful. Phil Hajjar walks you through the process of using a MySQL database as a source for data visualization in Grafana. Grafana is one of the most widely-used interactive ...