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 ...

Here's how to make this possible. Recently, I was tasked to add a MySQL database GUI for a client and came up against an issue where the database server wasn’t properly configured to accept ...

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully ...

It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc. MySQL is an RDMS (Relational Database ...

Now here is where I am a bit unclear. If VMware can easily host large intensive multi-thousand IO databases local on vmfs running from NFS, why can a MySQL database also not run from an NFS share?

To query a MySQL database, I'm going to assume you already have a Windows MySQL server and a database with at least one table in it you'd like to retrieve. I'm also going to assume that you don't ...