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).

Future certification programs are planned for using MySQL in conjunction with other software, such as the PHP software for creating Web pages on the fly, the company said.

Clustrix's CMO discusses the limitations of MySQL and how Clustrix's distributed, scale-out approach solves them.

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.

This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

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.

The firm polled 347 open-source software users. While 82.1 percent of respondents use MySQL today, that figure will drop to 72.3 percent by 2014, the study found.

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 ...