One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

Download, install, and set up a basic instance of the popular open source database with this step-by-step guide “MySQL done better” is one way to describe MariaDB. It’s a fork of that popular open ...

I recently was talking to someone over IRC who was helping me with a PHP app that was giving me trouble. The extremely helpful individual asked me to let him know the value of a certain field in a ...

So.... why MySQL instead of the better F/OSS MariaDB, which after all was forked from MySQL after the Oracle Monstrosity bought MySQL. Click to expand... Because ...