Oracle has beefed up its Database Firewall to help system administrators combat SQL injection attacks

Facebook's reliance on MySQL is unsustainable and requires a total rewrite, warns Michael Stonebraker

Oracle's new template eliminates most of the manual configuration required for virtualised MySQL environments

With the first developer release of MySQL 5.6, Oracle is fine-tuning the database for cloud systems

SQL injection attacks targeting Oracle sites have exposed database names and email addresses

Despite previous fears over Oracle's commitment to MySQL, the company has made the new version of the open source database generally available

Amazon Web Services has added Read Replica copying to improve scaling of MySQL database instances

MySQL 5.5 release candidate got high marks for its performance enhancements from analysts at the Oracle OpenWorld conference

MySQL Server and InnoDB have been enhanced to improve performance and scalability when running on the latest multi-CPU and multi-core systems

A refreshed version of SQL Server Migration Assistant looks to ease migration from MySQL to SQL Server and SQL Azure