Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments MySQL, MariaDB, ...

How to back up MySQL databases from the command line in Linux Your email has been sent Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

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 ...

In this edition's "Password Breach of the Week" story, news recently surfaced that an attacker could gain access to MySQL databases thanks to a flaw that will verify an incorrect password as correct.

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...