To intuitively understand join operations, we first build a simple example database that stores grocery items and their corresponding categories. The category information is stored in the categories ...

There may be times when you'll want to copy a MySQL database to a website. For example, if you are going to make changes to your company website, you should edit a copy of the site, not the live ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona CEO ...

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MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

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.

I remember once asking Marten Mickos to participate on a panel - "The Battle of the Databases" - for Linuxworld a year or two back. He declined. At the time, I was mildly annoyed at his sense of ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

Bun.secrets, also new in this release, is a native secrets manager for CLI (command-line interface) tools and local development. On macOS, it uses the Keychain, on Linux it uses libsecret, and on ...