OpenSolaris may be having a hard time at Oracle, but months after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java and MySQL are still viewed positively by users. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years ...

While most of the fixes for Java, Database, and MySQL are run-of-the-mill, four are rated critical if the targeted user has administrator privileges Oracle issued a gargantuan quarterly patch update ...

Sun has sent shockwaves through the open-source software community today by acquiring open-source database company MySQL AB. The MySQL database is regarded as one of the core components of open source ...

Oracle has released its first quarterly critical patch update of the year, urging customers to immediately apply the bundle's 270 fixes to a number of its products. Product families fixed in this ...

No doubt partly in response to all this, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka put up a blog post covering what I assume is the same ground covered in SAP’s letter to Oracle. The opening paragraphs hit points that I ...

I'm thinking about writing a library that takes a basic java object, and from its fields, would automatically create a SQL script for creating a table that would store the object in a database; as ...

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

The Java platforms (J2SE and J2EE) are filled with rich and useful features, making Java an extremely useful resource for more than mere programming. To use Java, a good scripting tool is needed.