(Russell Kay) In the jargon-laden world of IT, new terms are created as shorthand ways of referencing or discussing otherwise cumbersome phrases. One addition to the lexicon that has gained increased popularity and use is “LAMP,” which refers to a collection of free, largely open source software th

(Scott Lowe) PHP and MySQL are a powerful combination when it comes to providing dynamic content to your user base. Get the step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring these products in a Microsoft Windows environment.

(Jay Lyman) “In a large proprietary software development environment, engineers spend four to nine hours a week in meetings. … The result of all this is to pace the engineers to the plodding pace of management, so that they can stay in control of the project,” said Josh Berkus, core team member of

In this three-part tutorial we are going to be creating an open blogging system. We are also going to provide scripts that will make it possible to switch to a closed blogging system. This article, which is the first part, will cover the creation of the login scripts for a closed system.

(Roland Bouman) Quite a while ago, I wrote a few articles on using MySQL cursors. This time, I will try and shed some light on why cursors are often unnecessary. To illustrate that, I will refactor a typical case of cursor usage.

(China Martens) Developers at open-source player MySQL are set to make it easier for customers to manage the software. The company is working on a project code-named “Merlin” which continually scans a user’s database network for any likely system crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities.

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(Sheeri Kritzer) So what are the pros and cons of using descriptive foreign keys, as opposed to surrogate keys?

(Eric Lai) Open-source database maker MySQL AB has quietly dropped support for BerkeleyDB, the embedable database Oracle acquired in February.

(Matt Asay) Zack Urlocker is at the Gartner Open Source Summit this week, and has been hearing some good things about open source databases. Open source databases (Sleepycat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) have been around for a long time, but the analysts didn’t give them much credit because even though