More than 85,000 MySQL databases are currently on sale on a dark web portal for a price of only $550/database. The portal, brought to ZDNet's attention earlier today by a security researcher ...

Hackers have set up an auction site on the dark web to sell 250,000 databases stolen from tens of thousands of breached MySQL servers. The entire collection is seven terabytes in size and is part ...

None of which is to deprecate MySQL’s importance. It was and is critical infrastructure for the web. But it’s no longer developers’ default database for most things. How did this happen?

We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy." ...

The first part has chapters that cover the traditional three-tier architecture used in web database applications. It is followed by a chapter on PHP and a chapter on MySQL and SQL in general. There is ...