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MariaDb Essentials

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MariaDb Essentials

Overview of this book

This book will take you through all the nitty-gritty parts of MariaDB, right from the creation of your database all the way to using MariaDB’s advanced features. At the very beginning, we show you the basics, that is, how to install MariaDB. Then, we walk you through the databases and tables of MariaDB, and introduce SQL in MariaDB. You will learn about all the features that have been added in MariaDB but are absent in MySQL. Moving on, you’ll learn to import and export data, views, virtual columns, and dynamic columns in MariaDB. Then, you’ll get to grips with full-text searches and queries in MariaDb. You’ll also be familiarized with the CONNECT storage engine. At the end of the book, you’ll be introduced to the community of MariaDB.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the preliminary tasks that we need to perform before we can start working with MariaDB. In particular, we discussed the way to choose a MariaDB version and install it. We learned how to start and stop MariaDB, and how to efficiently use the mysql command-line client. Several other clients exist, but this is the one we will use for all the examples in this book. We learned how to set the MariaDB options in the configuration files or at the mysqld invocation. Some settings can be set at runtime, and sometimes they can be adjusted on a per-session basis: we discussed how to do this. MariaDB upgrades were also been discussed in the chapter. Finally, we learned how to install, uninstall, and configure MariaDB plugins.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to create new databases and tables, the data types that are available, how storage engines work, and the use of indexes.