SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

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 ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable ...

Non-assertion. As copyright holder, Oracle will change Sun's current policy and shall not assert or threaten to assert against anyone that a third party vendor's implementations of storage engines ...

Database habits die hard. Just ask Oracle, which continues to rake in billions in database revenue despite being one of developers’ “most dreaded” databases, according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey ...

A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end ...