EnterpriseDB says a tool unveiled today that connects Postgres and MySQL databases strengthens the position of Postgres as an alternative standard database. The MySQL foreign data wrapper allows ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

Most of the world's Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is in a database, but is access to databases secure enough? Companies are unable to maintain fine-grain control over access to their data ...

I have got a little server box that I want I'm using as a mythtv backend. Mythtv uses mysql to store its data.<BR><BR>I have sql-ledger running for my small business accounting on a different box. I'd ...

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

Visual DB today announced a new partnership with SQLite, the embedded relational database engine used in billions of devices ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has officially released Postgres 17, marking another milestone for the community, developers, and EDB, the leading contributor to PostgreSQL code. As the ...