If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

The low-cost, open-source backup and recovery package is tuned specifically for MySQL requirements, the company says.

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you ...

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.