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 ...

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In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

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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 ...