Talk:MySQL

Lists
This encyclopedia article clearly does not have enough lists. I count at least three maybe four paragraphs of prose. Moreover, somebody has really dumbed it down. There are sections that almost sound as if it were written for an audience that included non-programs of MySQL. And definitely, let's nail down that pronunciation. I think we should have a Finnish speaker pronounce it and then include the audio recording. I will volunteer to learn Finnish in furtherance of this task.

This article is definitely too technical for most readers to understand
Could somebody include an explanation of what MySQL actually is - worded in a way non-MySQL experts can understand, as per the message at the top of the page? Clicking on Relational_database didn't help... I presume it is not a standalone database package like Microsoft Access. It seems to be used on websites - but what for? Why would websites need to store data? And what data? I have been using computers for over 20 years, and am no fool, but this page taught me nothing. Thanks Davidelit (Talk) 10:31, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I understand your frustration at the lack of explanatory text to provide better context. As a start, I added a bit explanatory context to the lead; see what you think. Proposed deletion, I think, was to the wrong approach to handling this, in part because the article is not hopeless and can be improved. Website application design and relational databases are very worthy topics to cover, but are off-topic for this article, which is specifically about the MySQL product. Fortunately, hyperlinks make easy to jump to those more general topics when needed. -- 19:26, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

MariaDB's fork from MySQL
The line: "In January 2010, before Oracle's acquisition of MySQL AB, Monty Widenius started a GPL-only fork, MariaDB. MariaDB is based on the same code base as MySQL server 5.5 and aims to maintain compatibility with Oracle-provided versions." suggests that the first version of MariaDB was based on MySQL 5.5. But version 5.5 is when MariaDB stopped tracking changes from MySQL. The project was forked from MySQL before that. As can be seen if you follow the citation link

The MariaDB wikipedia page indicates that v5.1 was created in October 2009. v5.5 was released in 2012.

148.64.8.125 (talk) 13:22, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Latest version?
Why does this article list 5.7 when 8.0 has been available for more than 6 months? -- Mikeblas (talk) 03:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)