Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code. In a ...

Developers in the MySQL community are working together to challenge Oracle to improve transparency and commitment in its handling of the popular open source database, while considering other options, ...

The most simply-named product names can sometimes have the most surprising of origins. Behind two of the world’s most widely-used database management systems lies a story of family, open-source ...

Power BI is a fantastic tool from Microsoft, and while it may not be the stablest software tool of its kind, it’s admittedly still new and under active development. I have created a pbix file in 64bit ...

cf-mysql-plugin makes it easy to connect the mysql command line client to any MySQL-compatible database used by Cloud Foundry apps. Use it to The plugin creates a service key called 'cf-mysql' for ...

In this lab, we demonstrate how to use the MariaDB JDBC driver also known as MariaDB Connector/J, to connect to an Amazon Aurora cluster. We use a combination of a small custom Java client program, ...

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.