When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

The same week Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, MySQL, one of Sun's own recent acquisitions, unveiled the next version of its popular open source database. MySQL 5.4 ...

I'm trying to figure out what, if any, penalty may be associated with an INNODB table if you set the max file size far larger than the table may be expected to grow. Were Trying to avoid fragmentation ...

Oracle bought Sleepycat today. Sleepycat makes a good embedded database product and an XML database built on top of it. I've used the XML database in several projects and found that it's stable and ...

Oracle's purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering what the database giant's motives are. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting ...

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To install the MySQL database, you must first download the community edition of MySQL 5.0 database for Windows. There are three versions: Windows Essentials (x86), Windows (x86) ZIP/Setup.EXE and ...

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