Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

The open-source community needs to figure out a consistent response to code contributions. Those who give much get little credit, while those who give little get a lot of credit. Does this sound ...

Code that Microsoft made available under a public licence earlier this year will be in the next production release of the open-source database MySQL MySQL developers have used Microsoft source ...

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL. It's a move that has all the markings of the company's continued efforts to further close up the open source software and alienate ...

To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and ...

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...

Here I share my top five open source tools for MySQL administrators and discuss their value in the support of day-to-day MySQL administration tasks.