Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table.

We are developing a VB6 application that uses MySQL as it's database. The tables are InnoDB. How do we check to see if a record/table is locked before we do ...

Monty Widenius, the co-creator of the MySQL database, became a multimillionaire when MySQL was sold to Sun Microsystems in 2008.

MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL administrators need to check their database versions, as attackers can chain two critical vulnerabilities and completely take over the server hosting ...

MySQL has published its first “end of life” timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said ...

In the new ransomware attacks, targeted MySQL databases are erased and replaced with a ransom demand for 0.2 bitcoin, which is about $234.

The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

System administrators should be patching their MySQL installations if they haven't in the last three weeks, to safeguard their database servers against three critical security flaws discovered by ...

Brandt said hackers would scan for internet-accessible MySQL databases that would accept SQL commands, check if the underlying server would run on Windows, and then use malicious SQL commands to ...