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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you who followed along with the Lifehacker feature on how to set up a personal home web server, developer Jeff Lundberg takes it to the next level, adding instructions on how to add PHP, ...

I've been giving a task of getting some things running on a web server. It has an installation of MySQL. However, between the different administrators for the system, the MySQL root password has been ...