Using CONNECT to access remote MariaDB or MySQL tables
CONNECT is a powerful MariaDB storage engine designed to access remote data sources, using them as if they were local relational tables. We can query these tables and write data into them. While CONNECT supports a huge range of different data sources, the most common...
DROP TABLE improvements in MariaDB
MariaDB implemented several improvements to the DROP TABLE statement. We summarise them here. This article will be kept up to date when MariaDB implements further improvements, in the future. Loch Lomond, Scotland Contributions Before listing the improvements,...
MariaDB RETURNING Statements
Many DBMSs support a way to get information about a rows we just deleted, updated, or inserted. The syntax varies depending on the DBMS, and some of them allow more options than others. Currently MySQL has no similar feature. MariaDB supports the RETURNING keyword for...
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