Search engines are integral features to any well designed website, but how well does your search engine work? Most simple search engines work by querying one column of a database for the search terms.

Stored procedures (or stored routines, to use the official MySQL terminology) are programs that are both stored and executed within the database server. Stored procedures have been features in ...

Tony Barbagallo, Clustrix CMO, reached out to me to discuss how scale-out databases can address MySQL limitations. Clustrix believes that their patented, database sharding technology —that is breaking ...

Oracle announced the general availability of the MySQL 5.6 open source database. According to Oracle, with this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better ...

Called MySQL Administrator, the open-source tool is designed to provide an easy-to-use GUI to help manage and monitor databases. It is slated to be demonstrated Wednesday at the LinuxWorld Expo in New ...

Percona, provider of MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, is releasing an open source database performance analysis tool that will enable DBAs and application developers to optimize the ...

After some talk in the Mac forum about new year's resolutions I got the idea of writing a web based solution to log workouts. However I'd like this to be something that more people than just me find ...