The release candidate of MySQL 5.5 is now available for download, Oracle announced on Sunday at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The company said that the new release brings improvements in ...

Last month's general availability of Oracle's MySQL 5.5 is a significant release. Not only is it the first major version update of the popular open-source RDBMS since the 5.1 release in 2008, it's ...

Oracle’s unrelenting pursuit to provide innovations to MySQL users has spurred another enhancement, this time targeting scalability and new performance via MySQL 5.5. This new version of open source ...