MySQL

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing

HAProxy is an open source software which can load balance HTTP and TCP servers. In the previous article on HAProxy we configured load balancing for HTTP and in this one we’ll do the same for MySQL. All your MySQL servers have to be configured to perform Master-Master replication as load balancing involves both reading and writing to all the backends.

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How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, and verify that it is running and has a safe initial configuration.

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How To Use Stored Procedures in MySQL — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Stored Procedures in MySQL

MySQL supports the use of stored procedures, which group one or multiple SQL statements for reuse under a common name. Using stored procedures, you can create reusable routines for common tasks to be used across multiple applications, provide data validation, or deliver an additional layer of data access security. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what stored procedures are and how to create basic stored procedures that return data and use both input and output parameters.

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How To Install MySQL on CentOS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MySQL on CentOS

MySQL is an open-source database management system. CentOS prefers MariaDB by default, 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 MySQL, see the [How To Install MariaDB on CentOS](https://www.progressiverobot.com/how-to-install-mariadb-on-centos-7/) guide.

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How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial covers installing phpMyAdmin on a LAMP stack. Additionally it includes the steps on how to secure it with the .htaccess file. phpMyAdmin is an free web software to work with MySQL on the web—it provides a convenient visual front end to the MySQL capabilities.

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