MySQL is a relational database management system developed and released back in 1995. It was developed and sponsored by MySQL AB, which was then acquired by Sun Microsystems, which you know today as Oracle Corporation. MySQL is a combination of ‘My’ (co-founder’s daughter) and ‘SQL.’
MySQL was one of the earliest open-source RDBMS to be ever developed and launched. Currently, there are many variants of MySQL. However, the basic syntax of all the variations remains the same. Designed and written in C and C++ programming languages, MySQL is compatible with all primary OS (operating systems). It is a core component of a widely popular open-source web application software stack called LAMP, which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python.
