MySQL is a superstar among open-source databases. There are more than ten million MySQL installations worldwide, and it is used by top sites like Google, Yahoo, Slashdot and Travelocity. It is ...

How to back up MySQL databases from the command line in Linux Your email has been sent Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to ...

Until recently, I've been a fan of the PostgreSQL database, but Mysql's database replication implementation is very slick. Not to disparage my favorite RDBMS too much, but PostgreSQL's replication ...

Starting next month, the two companies plan to offer Intel-based boxes running MySQL's open-source database and the Linux operating system preconfigured and ready to roll. Pogo Linux, Redmond, Wash., ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.

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 ...

If you need to allow remote connections to your MySQL server, see how you can easily accomplish that task. If you work with MySQL, there will be instances in which you need to give remote access to ...