Network World

Differences between MySQL character data types; The costs of data across a WAN

* Differences between MySQL character data types By Steve Blass Q: We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want ...
InfoWorld

MySQL, Open-Xchange announce partnership

Open-source players MySQL and Open-Xchange are teaming up so Open-Xchange can embed MySQL’s database into its Linux-based collaboration server. The two companies announced a partnership and support ...
Ars Technica

MySQL vs LDAP for central authentication & authorization

This might be more appropriate in the Network forum. Mods, feel free to move if you like. I'm putting together a scheme to centralize all of our authentication in one place. (Yay!) First let me ...
TechSpot

MySQL vs. MariaDB: a brief comparison guide

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...
InfoWorld

Sun, MySQL synergies stressed in merger

With Sun Microsystems’ $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the ...
Network World

Differences between MySQL character data types

We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...