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- Owned by MySQL AB a subsidary of Sun Microsystems and Oracle
- Written in C and C++
- Available as free software under the GNU General Public License
- Enterprise edition offered to business users
- First released internally on May 23, 1995
- Windows version released on January 8, 1998
- PHP and MySQL are the primary components of popular content management systems, e.g., WordPress, Drupal. Mahalo also uses a MySQL database
- Dolphin mascot is named Sakila as a result of a 2002 contest
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MySQL is an open source database management system which allows multiple users to access multiple databases at the same time. On January 16, 2008, MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems for about $1 billion.
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"Both sets of customers confirmed what we've known for years - that MySQL is by far the most popular platform on which modern developers are creating network services. From Facebook, Google and Sina.com to banks and telecommunications companies, architects looking for performance, productivity and innovation have turned to MySQL. In high schools and college campuses, at startups, at high performance computing labs and in the Global 2000. The adoption of MySQL across the globe is nothing short of breathtaking. They are the root stock from which an enormous portion of the web economy springs." Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun on the acquisition of MySQL Helping Dolphins Fly -
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MySQL Questions
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Anyone know of any tools to migrate a mysql database from one pc to another? 1 AnswerIf you have direct access to the host (ie. Your computer is running the MySQL server), you can just copy and paste the contents of the "data" folder in your my... read more -
What do you like better postgres or mysql? 1 AnswerPostgres is a object orient database management system(dbms). mysql is just a basic dbms. now, the advantage of postgres is that you can consider any data as an... read more -
What do you think about Oracles ownership of MySQL? 2 AnswersI certainly believe Oracle will try to capitalize on MySQL. They just invested $7.4 billion in Sun. They would be foolish not to try to get a return on that inv... read more -
mySQL, is it possible to compact the db? 1 AnswerHave you had the opportunity to measure the performance directly at the server, eliminating the network delays? If the slow down is definitely at the server, y... read more
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MySQL Tools and Upgrades
- Official Site: MySQL Tools | Forge
- Wikipedia: PHPMyAdmin
- Google Code: Google MySQL Tools
- Open Sourcery: MySQL Support Tools
- SourceForge.net: CocoaMySQL
- Apple Developer Connection: MySQL on Mac OS X
- HeidiSQL: MySQL GUI Data Management Software
- Navicat: MySQL Management and Development Software
- Webyog: SQLyog
- Vive: SqlPro SQL Client
- Toolmagic: MySQL Toolkit
- Database Zone: Top 10 Free MySQL Tools
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