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 ...

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 ...

Better late than never I say. On Tuesday, June 27, MySQL announced that it would be joining the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. What does that mean? It means that the popular ...