by Federico Razzoli | Mar 22, 2025 | MariaDB, MySQL
MariaDB supports stored procedures written in procedural SQL. Which essentially means “SQL with IF’s and loops”. Most DBMSs do the same, but every project supports different, incompatible syntaxes. MariaDB implemented Oracle’s dialect, called...
by Federico Razzoli | Mar 14, 2025 | MySQL
For a very long time, the EXPLAIN command remained the same in the MariaDB and MySQL world. It was good enough in most cases, but the community welcomed the implementation of extensions and variants. However, MariaDB and MySQL improved it in different ways. So, if...
by Richard Bensley | Jan 10, 2024 | MySQL
If you have not already heard, Vettabase is now a partner of MindsDB, working on improving MySQL compatibility. In this post we shall take a look at getting started with MindsDB by connecting to MySQL and some of the improvements to date. We have a ready to go example...
by Federico Razzoli | Aug 8, 2023 | MariaDB, MySQL
MariaDB and MySQL support several storage engines. See MariaDB and MySQL storage engines: an overview for a discussion about existing MariaDB and MySQL storage engines. Here we’ll see how to work with them. We’ll see how to obtain information about storage...