Cox Communications Powers Massive Enterprise Application with MySQL

MySQL Used for 2-billion Row Data Warehousing Application at Fourth-Largest Cable Television Provider

SEATTLE, Wash - (July 9, 2003) - MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that Cox Communications (NYSE: COX), the fourth-largest cable television provider in the U.S., is using the MySQL® database to run a major data warehousing enterprise application that helps Cox make more informed business decisions and provide better customer care.

Cox Communications is a Fortune 500 company that offers multi-service broadband communications solutions. It serves approximately 6.3 million basic customers in the U.S. Cox uses Version 4.0 of the MySQL database for a business-critical data warehousing application that manages a variety of cable modem information, maintains cable firmware, provides an interface to customer care for real-time support and expedites internal and customer trending and analysis.

Cox's MySQL application pulls data from over 1.2 million cable modems, keeping a 30-day snapshot of the data. It runs across 27 collection servers with over 3,600 MySQL tables. MySQL's replication feature is used to keep four copies of the database distributed across several large servers. The MySQL application currently has over 2 billion rows doing about 4 million inserts every two hours.

"Based on the success and outstanding performance we've seen from MySQL, we will be moving from our 30-day snapshot up to 90 days," said Mark Cotner, manager of Network Application Development. "We expect that MySQL database will soon be about 600 GB in size, and we are confident that performance will remain strong."

The MySQL database is a high-performance relational database management system for Web site and business application development and deployment. The MySQL database maximizes speed, stability and ease of deployment with a streamlined and functionally-rich feature set. It is one of the most widely-used databases in the world, with over 4 million installations.

"Cox Communications' application is strong proof that MySQL can be an ideal solution for large, demanding enterprise implementations," said Mårten Mickos, MySQL CEO. "In addition to the performance and stability that Cox has experienced, they also benefit from MySQL's extremely low total cost of ownership."

More information about Cox Communications can be accessed on the Internet at www.cox.com.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops, markets and supports the MySQL database server, the world's most popular open source database. With an estimated 4 million installations and over 30,000 downloads per day, MySQL is quickly becoming the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Major corporations such as Yahoo!, Lucent Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, NASA, HP, Xerox and Cisco rely on the ultra-fast, highly-reliable MySQL database. MySQL is available under the free software/open source GNU general public license (GPL) or a non-GPL commercial license. For more information about MySQL, please go to www.mysql.com.

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