I recently had the opportunity to speak with Antony “Tony” Falco, CEO and Co-Founder of Orchestrate, about the idea of offering a database as a service (DBaaS) product and what it can mean to ...

Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the ...

If you have to jointly author a spreadsheet with a colleague, what is the first thing that you do? Email it back and forth. This can be painful, particularly as you try to keep track of your partner’s ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

After writing a column searching for Linux alternatives to Microsoft’s low-end database, Access, I received some great replies. Many readers pointed out the limitations of Microsoft Access, and while ...

If you're looking for a powerful, secure web-based database interface, Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use Adminer on Ubuntu Server. So you’re looking for a way to make MySQL a bit easier to ...

The issue of cross-platform programming will become bigger over the next few years, as companies—particularly small- and medium-sized businesses—see the advantages of migrating to Linux and take the ...

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Recently, I had a chance to test the community edition of Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. I was partly testing to make sure it worked with MariaDB, Monty Program's drop-in replacement for MySQL, ...