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Five things you need to know about MySQL

1. Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Open-source advocates feared that Oracle, which gained ownership of the open-source MySQL database through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, would choke off its development in order to protect the proprietary Oracle 11g database. That hasn't happened so far, as evidenced by two significant MySQL updates this year alone that provided features like additional scalability and better performance on Windows.

By Chris Kanaracus | 27 May, 2011 04:15

Tags: applications, Applications | Data Warehouse, database, mysql, open source, oracle, software

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