YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...

MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in late October.

Merging Tables with MySQL Merging tables, called "joining" in MySQL terms, is done by using the MySQL command interface in phpMyAdmin to create a new table.