Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

How to add data into MySQL tables from the command line Your email has been sent So you’re new to MySQL database administration. You’ve probably already installed ...

At start up, all MySQL programs read from one or more global option files, and lastly from the file called .my.cnf in the user's home directory, if such file exists. All option files have the same ...