A "LAMP" stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This stack typically consists of the Linux operating system, the Apache ...

MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to ma...

This tutorial provides instructions on how to install the PostgreSQL database software on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. It also includes instructions for basic database management.

This tutorial details the process for installing and configuring the components that constitute a LEMP stack on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, including Nginx, MySQL, and PHP. It also includes instructions for testing that t...

This article compares and contrasts three of the most widely implemented open-source RDBMSs: SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Specifically, it explores the data types that each RDBMS uses, their advantages and disadvant...

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the latest version of MariaDB on a CentOS 8 server.

Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don't have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which it might make sense to shard a database. This conceptual ar...

MySQL is an open-source database management system. CentOS 7 prefers MariaDB, a fork of MySQL managed by the original MySQL developers and designed as a replacement for MySQL. Unless you have a specific use-case for M...

Forgetting passwords happens to the best of us. If you forget or lose the root password to your MySQL or MariaDB database, you can still gain access and reset the password if you have access to the server and a sudo-e...

Being able to import and export your database is an important skill to have. You can use data dumps for backup and restoration purposes, so you can recover older copies of your database in case of an emergency, or you...

Django is a powerful web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. Django includes a simplified development server for testing your code locally, but for anything even slightly...

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux,…

PostgreSQL, or Postgres, is a relational database management system that provides an implementation of the SQL querying language. It is a popular choice for many small and large projects and has the advantage of bein...

Laravel is one of the most popular open-source web application frameworks written in PHP. It aims to help developers build both simple and complex applications by making frequently-used application tasks (like caching...

Many websites and applications start off with their web server and database backend hosted on the same machine. With time, though, a setup like this can become cumbersome and difficult to scale. A common solution is t...

MySQL is a prominent open source database management system used to store and retrieve data for a wide variety of popular applications. MySQL is the M in the LAMP stack, a commonly used set of open source software tha...

A MySQL transaction is a group of logically related SQL commands that are executed in the database as a single unit. Transactions are used to enforce ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability compliance ...

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LEMP stack. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the latest version of MariaDB on a CentOS 7 server. If you ...

In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of installing and configuring the latest version of pgAdmin onto an Ubuntu 18.04 server, accessing pgAdmin through a web browser, and connecting it to a PostgreSQL data...

A "LAMP" stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This stack typically consists of the Linux operating system, the Apache ...