One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

The basic commands you must execute to install a MySQL source distribution are: This will make a binary RPM that you can install. You can add new users using the bin ...

For those of you who followed along with the Lifehacker feature on how to set up a personal home web server, developer Jeff Lundberg takes it to the next level, adding instructions on how to add PHP, ...

I've been giving a task of getting some things running on a web server. It has an installation of MySQL. However, between the different administrators for the system, the MySQL root password has been ...