• MySQL was launched by a Swedish company
in 1995. (C and C++ source code)
• Its name is a combination of "My", the name
of co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter,
and "SQL“
Sameer Dehadrai
• Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL in 2008.
• Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.
• MySQL is an open-source relational database
management system (RDBMS).
• Most widely used open-source client–server
model RDBMS.
• Part of the widely used LAMP open-source
web application software stack (and other
"AMP" stacks).
• Free-software open-source projects that
require a full-featured database management
system often use MySQL.
• Joomla, WordPress, Google (though not for
searches), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and
YouTube.
• MySQL occupies 42% of world opensource
database market
• MongoDB 20%
Tools of MySQL
• MySQL database
• MySQL command line client
• MySQL Workbench
• MySQL Connectors (JDBC, ODBC, Python, C,
C++, etc.)
• MySQL for Excel (import, export and edit
MySQL data using Microsoft Excel)
• MySQL Notifier (Startup and Shutdown
Database)
• MySQL Enterprise Backup
• MySQL Enterprise High Availibility (for
Replication)
• MySQL Enterprise Encryption
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor (for Performance
Tuning)
• MySQL Query Analyzer
• etc.