Category: Databases

MySQL Stats – what is the meaning of MySQL queries and what is the importance of the MySQL stats?

The MySQL statistics represent the database load that your website(s) has generated for a specific time period. They show you how many SQL queries have been made to each one of your databases and if the number is beyond the limit (referring to the hourly limit which is 45 000, according to the Terms Of …

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What is a MySQL database?

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). Many web applications such as forums, content management systems, etc. use a database to store data (content). The majority of the web applications that use databases require a MySQL database to operate. For example, the popular web applications Joomla, Drupal, …

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What is a PostgreSQL database?

PostgreSQL is another Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that is supported on our servers. The database stores information and the data is structured in tables – rows and columns. A great deal of web applications that you can use on your website, such as shopping carts, forums, blogs or content management systems (CMS), require the …

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What is the difference between MySQL and PosgreSQL?

As a client hosted on our servers, you have the benefit of choosing between two database solutions – MySQL and PostgreSQL (not all hosting plans support PostgreSQL, though). As a starting point for our comparison, we can first consider the similarities. Both databases are open-source, supported by contributors and developers on a voluntary basis and …

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Are Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) or Microsoft Access databases supported?

As a customer-oriented company, we strongly believe that the quality of our services should exceed clients’ expectations at the lowest possible price. On account of this, our management team decided to have all our servers running on the open-source platform called Linux – an Operating System that has gained tremendous popularity in the last several …

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