Free or open source databases run hundreds of millions of public-facing and private applications worldwide, but how effective is this technology and how do these products compare? For answers, we ...

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL. We tested ...

There's a lesson this week for the open source MySQL database: Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. This week Oracle said it's made MySQL -- a database it acquired in its 2010 purchase of ...

Databases are essentially the most common target for data breaches. There are also security concerns looming around lack of encryption. McAfee knows quite a lot about this as a global leader in cyber ...

Oracle Corp., which supplies Yahoo! Inc. with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product -- the free MySQL database. MySQL and others are starting to eat ...

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The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

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How to Create a MySQL 8 Database User With Remote Access Your email has been sent At some point, you're going to need to connect to a MySQL 8 database remotely to manage your databases. Here's how to ...

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 ...