While PostgreSQL has thrived in recent years, MySQL has languished. MySQL backers are coming together to change that.

As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control ...

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The most simply-named product names can sometimes have the most surprising of origins. Behind two of the world’s most widely-used database management ...

Special characters require the MySQL escape character to indicate to the server that you want to insert the characters without executing any secondary code. Special characters such as commas and ...

MySQL user-defined variables are used to pass values from one statement to another. They are connection specific. Values cannot be created by one client and used by another client. The variables are ...