MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, announced a series of two-day training workshops designed to introduce developers and DBAs to the new enterprise features and capabilities of the company’s forthcoming MySQL 5.0 product.

(Lisa Vaas) People frequently and erroneously allude to the open-source database MySQL as a potential threat to the dominance of the database king, Oracle.

(MS Sridhar) A common mistake many developers make is using their MySQL database to validate a user name and password combination.

(Darryl K. Taft) EnterpriseDB Corp. came out of stealth mode to challenge for the title of best enterprise-class database company.

(Larry Ullman) The first step in creating and using a database is to establish its structure. The techniques you will learn in this sample chapter will help to ensure the viability, performance, and reliability of your databases.

(Marcus Whitney) When you have publicly available forms on the Web, you are always prone to attack by people who want to use your application for their own purposes. Forums, polls, guestbooks, and blogs are the popular places for robots to try to generate inauthentic posts on your site. Many sites,

(Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas) The first two chapters explored the basics of the SQL language and looked at the data types supported by PostgreSQL. This chapter covers a variety of topics that should round out your knowledge of PostgreSQL.

(Daniel J. Schwartz) You need to consider company policies concerning the use of open-source code. Managing the risks associated with open source demands that you discuss these issues with your programmers and arrive at known solutions in advance of someone potentially entering into a license agreem

(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

Open source databases continue to make inroads into enterprises, offering more robust, high performance, and advanced DBMS features and functionality as enterprises look for low-cost solutions. More enterprises are deploying open source databases than ever before, with many looking at mission-critic