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 ...

Adding data handling capabilities to your application or website can make it more user-friendly and enable you to store information obtained from users. MySQL, a free software application, helps you ...

MySQL AB has released the production version of its open-source database upgrade, MySQL 5.0. The new release, which had been expected this month or next, adds several features that have long been ...

I have an application that reads an image file and puts it into a MEDIUMBLOB. Or at least that's what it's supposed to do. What it actually does is nothing. I can do the database insert, which gives ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. What's going on with MySQL and the broader MySQL marketplace? Peter Zaitsev recently ...