Structured Query Language (SQL) is the language used for relational databases. Many database platforms use SQL, but they each have some variations in syntax. Microsoft SQL and MySQL are two of the ...

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). The main appeal: Allow ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

During the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, one common software stack for web applications was LAMP, which originally stood for Linux (OS), Apache (web server), MySQL (relational database), and PHP ...

The MariaDB Corp., the company behind MariaDB, community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), today announced the general availability of ...