by Federico Razzoli | Oct 8, 2020 | MariaDB, MariaDB InnoDB, MySQL, MySQL InnoDB
Transactions are the least known RDBMS features. Everyone knows they exist, but few know how they work. For this reason, it is not obvious that they can be read only. This article explains what read only transactions are and why we should use them when appropriate....
by Federico Razzoli | Sep 23, 2020 | MariaDB Storage Engines, MariaDB
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...
by Federico Razzoli | Aug 6, 2020 | 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. Contributions Before listing the improvements, it’s worth mentioning...
by Federico Razzoli | Aug 5, 2020 | MariaDB
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...