10 reasons why to choose MySQL as database engine for your websites instead of MSSQL 2005

Have you ever wanted to be able to SELECT a random record or records from a database table, but was unsure how to do it with SQL, instead of through code? Fortunately there is a way to do it in SQL Server (and MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLite, and yes, even your favourite, MS Access), and ...

As I've been porting Subtext to MySQL, it's been a learning experience. I've come to both marvel at MySQL's simplicity and tear my hair out at the maddening insanity of half-implemented features. I go back and forth between saying "SQL Server should have done this" and "SQL Server had...

Some performance test numbers of MySQL, MS SQL 2005 Express and Postgresql in a specific scenario.

A static method that converts C# standard objects and types to a SQL string, e.g. a byte array is saved as a blob.

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While messing about with Mono and MySQL on Fedora Core 6, I came across a particularly aggravating bug.The current .Net/Mono driver provided for MySQL has an odd flaw in the way the code is written. If you've tried the driver using .Net, you would never know it's there, but if you're using it under ...

MySQL Tools for Visual Studio is a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 which allows developer to maintain database structures and objects all from within the Visual Studio environment...