Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. In the first installment of this three-lesson tutorial, we cover everything you need to know ...

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or send ...

The latest major revision, MySQL 8, fixes a number of long-standing issues with MySQL—changes major enough to demand a revision to the left of the decimal point.

Cloud Foundry is an Open PaaS supporting many languages, runtimes, frameworks and services. Cloud Foundry exposes MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ and Redis as services that offer the database and ...