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Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced support for MySQL and PostgreSQL as fully managed instances on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, the company has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB with ...

Akamai Technologies Inc. is accelerating its evolution to support developers with the launch today of a new managed database service powered by Linode. The new offering supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, ...

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026 Users have six months to migrate from MySQL 8.0 if they are to stay on a supported version of the open source ...

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 ...

In addition to the new Mac OSX Lion desktop OS shipping recently, Apple also updated their server software to Lion as well. In an unannounced change Apple has swapped out the built in MySQL database ...

Even worse, Conery shows how MySQL will alter your existing data to fit new parameters, creating major headaches for developers who will wonder where these new data values are coming from. PostgreSQL, ...