The MySQL database server software, which powers many websites and business applications, uses a dialect of the industry-standard Structured Query Language for database maintenance and transaction ...

SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, ...

What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct syntax or ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.