For more than two decades, MySQL has been a staple of the open-source database community. As a brainchild of the database greats, David Axmark, and Michael Widenius, MySQL has been a prominent database choice for millions of users since the mid-90s. MySQL is a free...
Oracle is another popular database the Virtual-DBA team supports. With more than 310,000 businesses in 175 different countries using Oracle Database — many of them on the Fortune 100 list — it's one of the most widely used databases in the world. Oracle Database...
In case you missed the first post with the Database Glossary of Terms, you can see it here. Here are some popular databases that the Virtual-DBA team supports along with some feature or terminology highlights (usually relative to the most recent version of said...
This series is designed to be a database reference guide, covering databases from the very beginning. We're calling it Database 101. There will be eight sections in this series. Part 1: Database Glossary of Terms Let's start with some background for people who know...