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[{$pagename}] is an [Open Source] [Relational Database Management System] ([RDBMS])


[{$pagename}] name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, and "[SQL]", the abbreviation for [Structured Query Language].

[{$pagename}] First internal release on 23 May [1995|Year 1995] and [Sun Microsystems] acquired MySQL AB in [2008|Year 2008] and [Oracle] acquired [Sun Microsystems] on 27 January [2010]. The day Oracle announced the purchase of Sun, Michael "Monty" Widenius forked [{$pagename}], launching [MariaDB], and took a swath of [{$pagename}] developers.

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* [#1] - [MySQL|Wikipedia:MySQL|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2015-05-06