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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 ...

Sun has announced that, contrary to ideas it floated earlier, MySQL and all its accompanying tools will remain open source. Although Sun has never suggested that the MySQL database server itself would ...

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Setting up database replication is one of the most reliable means of getting a real-time backup of your MariaDB data. See how easy this is to achieve. If you plan on setting up a database server using ...

For database developers and managers, this change shouldn't be a problem. MariaDB, a MySQL fork founded by the original MySQL developers, is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the MySQL Database ...