Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) aren’t the sort of thing to get most folk out of bed in the morning – unless, of course, you happen to think they’re one of the most brilliant concepts ...

Whether you’re running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command. Your Ubuntu Server is up and running ...

Starting next month, the two companies plan to offer Intel-based systems running MySQL's open-source database and the Linux operating system preconfigured and ready to roll. The move marks MySQL's ...

If you are an application developer, you're probably working with large quantities of data. And, if that data is anything more complex than a hash table, you might want to consider moving some or all ...

Until recently, I've been a fan of the PostgreSQL database, but Mysql's database replication implementation is very slick. Not to disparage my favorite RDBMS too much, but PostgreSQL's replication ...