Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Our final sprint to the finish line stretches over replication: its limitations, high availability and the many improvements since the last version. Over our previous three stages you made it through ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Oracle announced that early access to new features of MySQL 5.6 is available for the community to test, deploy and provide feedback. The latest features are focused on better scalability, performance ...