Coupled with MySQL you have a very powerful set of tools to build just about any type of website. And they’re both free. But, now that Oracle is trying to acquire Sun, this could soon change. And I don’t think it will change for the better. Oracle is expensive, and MySQL is a threat to them. If they own Sun, then they wouldn’t need to keep MySQL active anymore. And this could be a catastrophe for many web developers, Open Source projects, and website owners. Joomla, Drupal, http://www.simplemachines.org/, phpList, WHMCS, vBulletin, WordPress (what I use for this blog) to name but a few scripts all rely on MySQL.

“Monty Says” has an extended article on this matter, found here with more info on how to help with this problem. Please help support this cause.

Run the following commands on your server, in the console as root.


mysqlcheck –all-databases -r #repair
mysqlcheck –all-databases -a #analyze
mysqlcheck –all-databases -o #optimize