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

Stored Procedures Vs. Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQL. The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database.

Fastest Way to Check if MYSQL Table Exists in PHP. Dynamic PHP pages give you the option to choose a MySQL table dynamically from which to query.

Already the MySQL database project has started to fracture into competing forks, while business rivals like EnterpriseDB and IBM collect confused customers.

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.

The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering. Sun Microsystems has acquired ...