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 ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN ...

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...

Percona's enhanced MySQL MEMORY storage engine can accept any data type, paving the way for use of more efficient data types Percona has updated its version of MySQL so that the software’s storage ...

The MySQL Database can be used to create a free online or offline mailing list. A basic mailing list database contains two tables. One table contains the name, email address, street address and zip ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...