While I am a general Linux admin, I have never administered or used PostgreSQL, although I do admin a few MySQL instances. I have just been told that a system currently hosted on SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

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 ...

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 ...