By providing a NoSQL alternative access method, Oracle could offer customers the best of both worlds–a database that is fully ACID-compliant and has the speed of a NoSQL database.

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

Speculation has been running rampant that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL database at the OpenWorld conference, to be held next week in San Francisco.

Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password—just keep submitting it The flaw, patched in both databases, leaves some versions wide open to attackers ...

Say, for example, you have servers set up specifically for database and web: Your web server hosts an instance of WordPress that needs to be able to access the remote MySQL server.