What Is MySQL?
MySQL is the world's most popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It has every quality to be an RDBMS for business but, unlike its rivals, can be used for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
MySQL—pronounced “my-ess-queue-ell”—takes its name from SQL, the language for database querying developed by IBM. The “My” is said to come from the name of the daughter, My, of MySQL's Finnish designer, Michael “Monty” Widenius.
MySQL has a history stretching back over 10 years. It was conceived when Monty and TcX, the Swedish consultancy for which he worked, were looking for a database system to solve particular business problems for TCX's customers. They tried using a similar database product called ...
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