Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

EnterpriseDB says a tool unveiled today that connects Postgres and MySQL databases strengthens the position of Postgres as an alternative standard database. The MySQL foreign data wrapper allows ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...

Most of the world's Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is in a database, but is access to databases secure enough? Companies are unable to maintain fine-grain control over access to their data ...

I have got a little server box that I want I'm using as a mythtv backend. Mythtv uses mysql to store its data.<BR><BR>I have sql-ledger running for my small business accounting on a different box. I'd ...

I have to switch, I need to use PostGIS and MySQL geometry just isn't good enough. But ugh - there is no way to grant a bunch of privileges to all tables to a user that doesn't own the tables (such as ...

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the ...