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 ...

IIRC typing `apt install mysql-server` on Debian > Stretch will install mariadb by default. default-mysql-server on Debian shows mariadb as a dependency: Not sure; shortly after the mariadb split ...

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...