Recently while reviewing MySQL client tools, I discovered a Linux MySQL server on my local network refusing all incoming connections. Because I run Slackware, I suspected that the -skip-networking ...

Google today announced it has added support for native MySQL connections to its Cloud SQL service. As such, the fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform is getting a significant ...

Researchers have identified a serious vulnerability in some versions of Oracle’s MySQL database product that allows an attacker to strip SSL/TLS connections of their security wrapping transparently.

We want to connect a desktop database client from a Windows PC directly to a MySQL database server. The server is configured to only accept connections from a specified Web server that uses a shell ...

I have an IIS6 box w/ PHP installed. One of the php pages requires a connection to a remote MySQL 5 box (same subnet, so no fw issues).<BR><BR>With this same user on the MySQL box itself, I can ...

To intuitively understand join operations, we first build a simple example database that stores grocery items and their corresponding categories. The category information is stored in the categories ...

Recent TIL articles on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.0: 106324: Mac OS X 10.0: How to Change "From" Address When Sending Email notes that you "can change the default sending account or make changes ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...