Perl DBD MySQL for MySQL 8.0 and 8.4 LTS
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Some years ago, I wrote an article on connecting to MySQL 8.0 using the default authentication plugin (caching_sha2_password) with Perl. I also provided Perl-DBD-MySQL packages for EL7. Somebody recently left a comment as he was looking for a perl-DBD-MySQL driver…