If you’re going to build for the web, you need to know PHP and MySQL. In tandem, these vital web development tools can produce function-rich, beautifully customized websites and databases, and you’ll ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

OpenSolaris is an operating system (OS), an open source project, and a community. The project’s goals are innovation, collaboration, and the extension of OpenSolaris technologies such as Solaris OS, ...