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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 ...

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire -08/23/12)- Percona, Inc., the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced Percona Server Version 5.5.27-28.0, the latest release of the company's ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

Sun has announced that, contrary to ideas it floated earlier, MySQL and all its accompanying tools will remain open source. Although Sun has never suggested that the MySQL database server itself would ...

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Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...

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Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.