Some observers attribute the growth of Linux servers to the migration of lower-end platforms, such as old Windows NT or Novell file and print boxes, to Linux. The open source operating system is still ...

COMMENTARY--Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux systems have been moving from the front end of e-commerce to the back end. The commerce-grade Linux database has come of age. As ...

Learn how Azure Backup allows you to take database consistent snapshots, leveraging Azure VM backup and using packaged pre-post scripts Azure Backup service already provides a pre-post script ...

There was good news for Linux enthusiasts from the database front last week, as enterprise Linux suppliers and database vendors made some deals. Oracle announced that its key wares for business data ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Sybase Inc. has hooked up with IBM to put Sybases ...

If you shut down the mysqld service first, you can copy your databases to an example /backup directory by using the following command: cp –Rp /var/lib/mysql/*.* /backup The –R switch for the cp ...

Renault's Formula 1 team is one of the first to test the database software Microsoft has produced a version of its database software that runs on the rival Linux operating system. The version of SQL ...