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 ...

A security firm revealed today that mysql.com, the central repository for widely-used Web database software, was hacked and booby-trapped to serve visitors with malicious software. The disclosure ...

Open Source web development technologies have become a staple of the new Internet. This book chapter discusses securing your data in the popular MySQL open source database. Have you been thinking of ...

There's some potentially interesting changes coming to the world of MySQL. And no, it's got nothing to do with the recent acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Drizzle is a new project from Brian Aker, ...