One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end ...

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 ...

In database management, it’s easy to assume that newer technologies are always better. While many database solutions have gained popularity in recent years, MySQL—one of the oldest and most widely ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

Securing your MySQL installation isn’t difficult. Find out how to easily harden MySQL with one command. Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

Users have six months to migrate from MySQL 8.0 if they are to stay on a supported version of the open source database, or face security and reliability risks.… Percona, a provider of open source ...