Why use MySQL?

Answer 1

It's free.

Widely used, so there is plenty of support, examples, tutorials.

Better at performing some tasks such as jumping to records without first cycling through the previous records.

It runs on Windows, Windows Server and *nix machines

It is continually being improved (ongoing development)

It can use transactions (ie rollback several update/inserts, if something fails)

Supports live backups, table locking, basically anything any other database can do.

Answer 2

It allows your website to remember information for people even if they are on a different computer all over the world. So you can make a hiut counter and it would work for every single person that visits your site and you could also make a login box that remembers the suers name and other information.

Answer 3

• MySQL is open source software which is available at any time and has no cost involved.
• MySQL is portable
• GUI with command prompt.
• Administration is supported using MySQL Query Browser

Answer 4

Top 5 Advantages of MySQL:

• Ease of use

• Flexibility

• High security

• Scalability

• Performance

• A wide choice of MySQL IDEs, which makes your work easier, for example standart onr MySQL WorkBench or more advanced dbForge Studio for MySQL.

Answer 5

While MySQL does not have a true database engine it does perform well for small deployments. The advantage; its free. The disadvantages would take days to write.

Answer 6

MySQL is an opensource, faster And has more performance than SQl.It works on all platforms unlike SQL.

Answer 7

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