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 ...

Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

Also, I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my examples, because that's what I have installed, and because I like the improvements MariaDB includes in both the command-line client and in the database ...

The MySQL Server -- the core of the database. MySQL Workbench to view your databases and schemas. MySQL Shell to issue SQL statements on the command-line. MySQL Router to help with database scaling.

We are developing a VB6 application that uses MySQL as it's database. The tables are InnoDB. How do we check to see if a record/table is locked before we do a SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE ...