MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. Built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of free and open source software developers, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements to MySQL, including alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches.
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MariaDB Crash Course teaches you all you need to know to be immediately productive with MariaDB. Master trainer Ben Forta introduces all the essentials through a series of quick, easy-to-follow, hands-on lessons. Instead of belaboring database theory and relational design, Forta focuses on teaching solutions for the majority of users who simply want to interact with data.
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Learn how to:
- Retrieve and sort data
- Filter data using comparisons, regular expressions, and full text search
- Join relational data
- Create and alter tables
- Insert, update, and delete data
- Leverage the power of stored procedures and triggers
- Use views and cursors
- Manage transactional processing
- Create user accounts and manage security via access control
