(Steven Musil) The LinuxWorld conference is proving to be more than just a meeting of Linux fans and sellers. It’s now a venue for all sorts of open-source advocates.

Ever accidentally deleted a database table, or had the disk with your live database crash? If so, you know all too well that sinking feeling you get when you realize that weeks of hard work just vanished into nothingness.

(Scott Sanders and Teodor Danciu) MySQL provides access to great status information for nearly everything. However, this status information can be difficult to view over time, as MySQL only gives point-in-time status information representative of that instant the status request was made. In addition

(Elizabeth Montalbano) Novell is joining a growing list of resellers that sell subscription-based services for MySQL’s open source database.

Building and deploying browser-based database applications became easier today with the release of Alpha Software’s Data-2-the-Web for MySQL. The new software allows MySQL developers to create web-enabled databases in less than ten percent of the time currently required to painstakingly program in l

(Ian Gilfillan) MySQL 5.0 finally introduces functionality for Stored Procedures. So what exactly are stored procedures? That is the kind of question that gets database professionals who use other DBMS’s raising their eyebrows. Stored procedures have been integral to Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB-2, MS-SQL

(Chad Dickerson) There’s nothing I can do about it. Open source can’t help me with my crusty old PBX. Except that it can. And for me, that suggests that open source can — and will — go anywhere and everywhere.

(Brian Vaughn) Welcome to part three of this tutorial introducing application development for the Nennius engine. In this article, we will enhance the News Manager application from part two.

(Sami Akbay) In 2004, total online consumer spending grew by 26 percent to a record level of more than $117 billion. Millions of consumers are researching and buying goods and services over the Web, which translates into businesses processing higher volumes of transactions online every day. To a

To our fellow developers & users of Free & Open Source Software: This year, we are celebrating ten years of MySQL: the database, the company and the community.