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Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_22

22. Introducing MySQL

Frank M. Kromann1 
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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
 

The MySQL relational database server was born almost 22 years ago out of an internal company project by employees of a Swedish software company. Their project, dubbed MySQL, was first released to the general public at the end of 1996. The software proved so popular that in 2001 they founded a new company based entirely around MySQL-specific service and product offerings. Over the course of the ensuing decade, MySQL’s rate of adoption among educational institutions, government entities, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies was such that the company behind MySQL was in 2008 ...

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