There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...

A typical way of backing up data in a database server is retrieving a dump of the database(s). Depending on the update frequency and the criticality of the data, this kind of backup can be done, once ...

Continuent, Inc., a provider of solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication, backup and database performance scalability, has introduced Continuent Tungsten 1.2.1 for ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

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 ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

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 ...

Until recently, I've been a fan of the PostgreSQL database, but Mysql's database replication implementation is very slick. Not to disparage my favorite RDBMS too much, but PostgreSQL's replication ...

MySQL databases come in all shapes and sizes, but most often are deployed behind Web sites. As sites grow, the companies behind them often become concerned about uptime and want to move to a ...