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 ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

Much of the interest in NoSQL databases has stemmed from the simple fact that many organizations running the open source MySQL relational database are either running out of performance headroom or ...

Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine. With the vendor's Fabric data platform, Database Hub promises a ...

Building data entry forms and reports for MySQL involves using HTML and a Web programming language such as PHP to create the front-end forms and reports, and using a database connection technology ...

Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent necessity. Here are the most common options and when to use each one Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

There may be times when you'll want to copy a MySQL database to a website. For example, if you are going to make changes to your company website, you should edit a copy of the site, not the live ...