Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

In this tell-all tutorial, Jay Greenspan, author of MySQL Weekend Crash Course and co-author of MySQL/PHP Database Applications, starts with a tour of the basics: He answers the age-old Q: "What's the ...

Implement MySQL-based transactions with a new set of PHP extensions Your email has been sent Transactional support has long been on the wish list of most MySQL developers and, with the release of ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

High-end database company Solid Information Technology will create an open-source storage "engine" for the MySQL database. Solid's database is used primarily for demanding applications in industries ...