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Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...

As the world's most popular open source database, MySQL's speed, reliability, and ease of use have made user-generated content and social media available to the masses. In the 18 months since the ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...