Over the last year, Business Objects, the world’s leading business intelligence software vendor with more than 30,000 customers worldwide, and MySQL AB, which develops and supports a family of high performance affordable database products including MySQL, the world’s most popular open source datab

(Ingrid Marson) Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open-source community that he can pull together a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon — as he did at last year’s FOSDEM conference in Brussels.

(Ian Barwick) Foreign keys are an essential part of any relational database. In MySQL’s foreign key support has been added on through the InnoDB extension and is continually being improved. However some aspects of the foreign key implementation, especially in combination with other areas of function

The general perception that open source equals Linux is changing as open-source software matures and users look to gain benefits such as cost savings and the flexibility that comes with having access to source code, analysts say.

(wduros1) This is a sample framework that I wrote. It work basically like a poor man’s OR tool, generating VB.NET code from a database table, and using attributes to control updates and inserts.

(Mike Morton) With more and more programmers creating dynamic, database driven websites, the proliferation of PHP and MYSQL is reaching critical mass proportions. With that however, comes the added "bonus" of many different security holes being opened on hosted boxes everywhere. With the current atm

(JT Smith) Ask a group of corporate IT leaders whether they’d rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves.

(Lee Asher) If you’re already a programmer, you’ll be able to learn the basics of PHP in about five minutes, and if you’re not then it probably won’t take much longer.

Last fall brought a bumper crop of free database solutions, with the release of MySQL 5.0, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, and the beta version of Oracle 10g Express Edition. The Microsoft and Oracle offerings are geared more toward started implementations and learning environments, but MySQL has a

(Edward Tanguay) Getting information about databases if essential if you want to write generic and scalable applications. This code shows you how to get information such as all databases on the server, all tables in each database and all field and field info for each table. Even if you do not need t