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.

Most Linux distros make it almost trivial to add popular DBMSs to your system, such as MySQL and MariaDB, by bundling them in for free in their online app stores.

About MySQL database backup script that allows you to dump databases from MySQL, compress them and copy them to remote linux servers while optionally maintaining a permanent or rolling local backup.

The mysql command-line interactive program is a very powerful way to access, display and even manipulate data without the need for any GUI at all. The basic commands are well worth learning, so if you ...

Both databases now support Unicode characters; MySQL supports both UCS-2 and UTF-8 encoding, and PostgreSQL supports only the latter. Both databases also offer a very large number of functions that ...

So I asked some MySQL users and Bell Micro—which packages the Linux stack onto servers—if they had or would ever consider using one of the “lite” proprietary databases instead of MySQL.

MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu If you've got 15 minutes, we can show you the ropes of basic MySQL management.

Does 80% of the Linux team actually give a reason for not hosting MySQL on NFS? Can they quote any technical documentation that discusses MySQL on NFS?