Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...

If a web-based GUI is better suited to your admin skills, Jack Wallen wants to show you how to back up and restore your MySQL/MariaDB databases with one of the easiest tools on the market.

Rather, you use objects and methods to work with the database; the methods you invoke are translated into SQL by an ORM (object-relational mapper). Part of the reason, I believe, for the widespread ...

Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...