This year, Oracle has already tried to placate fears about MySQL’s development and adoption, as its apparent stagnation has meant it is ill-positioned for the short-term future. Issues abound, meaning ...

As I covered in my year-end cyber review last month, there were numerous headline-grabbing cybersecurity stories in 2025 — many focused on AI. So as we look back 12 months, what were the most popular ...

Forget all this touchy-feely open-source LAMP stack stuff--throw away your SQL Server and run our MySQL database on Windows. Okay, maybe the message wasn't quite that stark, but there's no doubt ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As developers migrate their old Java Persistence API applications to JPA 3, their progress is ...

If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you’re in luck. This article walks you through these steps, so you’ll never be at a loss for that database root user password. You may have ...

I plan to start writing a series of MySQL blogs in my spare time, diving deep into MySQL’s design and implementation from the perspective of its underlying code. The prefix of this series will be ...

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At some point, you’re going to need to connect to a MySQL 8 database remotely to manage your databases. Here’s how to make this possible. Recently, I was tasked to add a MySQL database GUI for a ...