References

www.mysql.com—This is the official website of the MySQL database server. Here you can find the latest versions as well as up-to-date information and online documentation for MySQL. You can also purchase support contracts here. You might want to look into this if you will be using MySQL in a corporate setting. (Many corporations balk at the idea of using software for which the company has no support contract in place.)

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-the-saga-of-mysql.html—An interesting article describing the fears of the MySQL community and the creation of forks.

http://drizzle.org/Home.html—The home page for Drizzle, a fork of MySQL.

http://kb.askmonty.org/v/MariaDB—The home page for MariaDB, another fork of MySQL ...

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