Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

MySQL's latest update isn't the definiitive open-source database that will give commercial databases a run for their money, but experts say it's a good evolutionary step in that direction.

MySQL boasts might against big players At the first MySQL confab, the database company releases source code for its upcoming product and touts itself as the little database company that could.

At its first MySQL conference next week, Sun will release MySQL 5.1, which will feature partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication, and disk-based clustering ...

I have a table with half a million rows that's 20GB in size. It has two columns: A uid, which is the unique key, and a blob which contains the actual data. When I run the queryselect uid from ...

MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to the open-source database this week when Sun Microsystems Inc. hosts its first MySQL user conference since acquiring the ...