Search engines are integral features to any well designed website, but how well does your search engine work? Most simple search engines work by querying one column of a database for the search terms.

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 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 ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

MySQL is a powerful database, but its search capabilities are most efficient for searches based upon a single database index. If your application requires complex searching, consider adding Sphinxto ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a lesson this week for the open source MySQL database: Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. This week Oracle said it's made MySQL -- a database it acquired in its 2010 purchase of ...