Posted: December 30th, 2011, 6:00am MST
Being by far the most popular open source RDBMS available to date, MySQL offers a wealth of engaging facilities that make it stand out from its closest competitors. A stable, reliable performance, solid support for ACID transactions and multiple storage engines, foreign keys handling and cascade operations are only a small part of the tremendous menu of features that the database server offers for free. These have, not surprisingly, contributed to extending its existing popularity even further over time. Among other features, MySQL includes a powerful privilege administration module. It lets y...