At events with the MySQL community, when we were enough “veterans,” we had a little ritual: we played Cards Against the MySQL Community. A politically incorrect (but still lighthearted) game that followed the same rules as “Cards Against Humanity.“ Those…
MariaDB Server supports different authentication methods just like MySQL. Depending on your installation, the number of available and active authentication plugins can vary. But you should always have those 3 by default: If we compare with MySQL 9.7, we can…
We are concluding our series related to new data types using the Type_handler framework, with some limitations that are not yet covered by the framework: It would have been handy for our MONEY datatype to have the possibility to define,…
This is part 4 of a series related to extending MariaDB with a custom data type using the Type_handler framework. You can find the previous articles below: Overriding Existing Types In the previous examples, our MONEY data type inherits from…
In the previous article, we wrote, compiled, and tested our first custom data type for MariaDB using the Type_handler framework. But currently, aside from allowing the use of its new name (MONEY) and listing it in the metadata, our new…
After having discovered the Type_hander framework and learned how to build MariaDB Server from source, it’s time to code our first data type! We will create a MariaDB plugin that registers a new MONEY type and instantiates a custom field…
This is the first part of the series about how to add a new data type to MariaDB using the Type_handler framework. A preliminary article has already been published to start the series; it covers how to set up your…
As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database. The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced…
Welcome to this new series about extending MariaDB. This series covers the addition of a new data type using the Type_handler. The goal of the entire series is to create a new plugin data type MONEY to store and display…
Preview releases are among the clearest ways an open-source community can shape the future of a database before it becomes a production reality. They give users early access to new features, a chance to validate upgrade paths, and an opportunity…
Percona’s new 2026 benchmark report is interesting because it puts several MySQL-family releases on the same graphs and shares a public repository for the test harness. That openness is welcome. But after reading both the article and the published scripts,…
One of the things I really like about open source is that a project is never only about the software. Yes, code is important. Very important. But a project like MariaDB exists and grows because of people. People who contribute…