There's a lesson this week for the open source MySQL database: Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. This week Oracle said it's made MySQL -- a database it acquired in its 2010 purchase of ...

Databases are essentially the most common target for data breaches. There are also security concerns looming around lack of encryption. McAfee knows quite a lot about this as a global leader in cyber ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...

The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

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. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

“Free” in the software business does not necessarily mean free of charge, said MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who reviewed a list of business models for open source at the Open Source Business Conference in ...

PhpMyAdmin is used as the backend database interface for a number of leading content management systems deployed by businesses, including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Thanks to the phpMyAdmin Web ...

Oracle Corp., which supplies Yahoo! Inc. with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product -- the free MySQL database. MySQL and others are starting to eat ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sun Microsystems Inc.'s deal to buy open-source software company MySQL AB for $1 billion deepens Sun's bet that its road to prosperity ...