MySQL & XAMPP

 

"The MySQL® database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used on every continent -- Yes, even Antarctica! -- by individual Web developers as well as many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, and Zappos.com."

MySQL is flexible enough to be able to run on about 20 different platforms, from Windows to Mac to Linux. Leaving the ability to have different types of applications running in balance with MySQL one of these programs is XAMPP. XAMPP is an open source project that bundles MySQL with Apache Server, PHP, and Pearl making it a dynamic bundle being able to create and run websites. One other feature that XAMPP has is that it provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MySQL allowing developers to have greater flexibility while writing their applications.

"XAMPP's designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default. In practice, however, XAMPP is sometimes used to actually serve web pages on the World Wide Web." When XAMMP's security features are enabled it makes it a secure web service, and makes secure calls to the MySQL database.

XAMPP is just one example of a development tool that can be used with MySQL to create dynamic web pages. MySQL is often the choice of developers because it can be tied in closely with PHP creating a rich user environment. The reliability of MySQL being able to be bundled with other programs makes it indispensible when trying to search for databases that are compatible with other software packages.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sun Microsystems, Inc., (n.d.). Retrieved Oct. 30, 2009, from http://mysql.com/why-mysql/

Apache Friends, (2009, Oct. 07). Retrieved Oct. 30, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAMPP