mysql

Setting up and upgrading MySQL 5.x

More info here: http://dev.mysql.com/ I have tested the following guide when installing mysql 5.6, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0 version. At the time I'm writing the latest stable version is 5.6.10. Installing from source More info here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/installing-source-distribution.html Download: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/#downloads You may want to install from source...

Running two php/mysql/mariadb versions on the same apache web server

In a web server  very old applications must coexist with new ones. Usually old applications are no more mantained and still require old versions of php and mysql, while recent apps claim to use the latest features of your apache,...

Installing mariaDB from source

Info: http://mariadb.org/ These days many different popular Linux distributions (at the time I'm writing Slackware, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse, Gentoo among the others) are switching to mariaDB, replacing mysql as the default db server. mariaDB is a fork of mysql, created by the...