MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).

How to Call a Stored Procedure From PHP in MySQL. Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records.

Managing MySQL You must enter commands to communicate with MySQL. You can do this by typing statements using the command line utility that comes with the software.

Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.