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Sun Microsystems has purchased MySQL AB the company behind the most popular internet database in the world. The cost was one billion dollars. According to Sun there will be more advances made in the database software. MySQL is build on open source code and is the defacto database for just about every opensource application on the internet. Sun promises that now there will be real commercial support for the database. The deal will be finallized in the third quarter of this year and the...

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I frequently get stuck cleaning up the unicode characters when importing data from older versions of MySQL. This snippet is the one I use most often for the replacement of garbage characters to the Swedish äöå.

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tips and tricks for using MySQL

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Web programming and database design go hand in hand. But while there are hundreds of tutorials on how to create a web application in any number of languages. There is very little in the way of showing what a database schema for a web application should look like. The result is that most do database design by trial and error.

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Database design I am not sure but I think that having indexes on boolean fields and short repeated text is not very efficient in a database. The reason I am unsure is because my training and experience is in Microsoft database where you just don't do this.

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Continuing the discussion of database systems used by open source CMS projects. Now we take a closer look at the most popular database, MySQL. Why is MySQL so popular when it does not fullfill a projects databse needs?

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Oracle has shaken up the opensource database world with its purchase of Innodb technology, distributed by MySQL AB. This does not effect all opensource projects but poses enough questions about the OSS worlds dependancy on MySQL that many opensource content management projects and web hosting providers should start giving more database choices to their users and clients.

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