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Scenario: MariaDB Community Server is release every 3 months. The exact date is not known but it is typically about 2 to 3 weeks after the MySQL/Oracle CPU.

We upgrade regularly customer systems, also their MariaDB Galera Cluster systems. Because we made in the past some very bad experience upgrading production MariaDB Galera Clusters short after release date we became a bit more careful. Our new policy is: We wait a few weeks before installing a new release.

This week we had the situation that on Monday a …

Repositories from your favourite Linux distribution and from your favourite database software vendor get regular package updates. If you do periodic system upgrades (for example every 2 weeks as we do) you get the newest packages of a release series.
Unfortunately recently the software vendors started not only to fix bugs in new releases but also to introduce new features. And when you fix bugs or introduce new stuff new bugs might appear.
To avoid being hit unexpectedly by new bugs you do not want to …

MariaDB 10.3 was released GA a few weeks ago. One of the features which interests me most is the MariaDB Oracle PL/SQL compatibility mode.

So its time to try it out now…

Enabling Oracle PL/SQL in MariaDB

Oracle PL/SQL syntax is quite different from old MySQL/MariaDB SQL/PSM syntax. So the old MariaDB parser would through some errors without modification. The activation of the modification of the MariaDB PL/SQL parser is achieved by changing the sql_mode as follows:

mariadb> SET SESSION …

Overview

FromDual provides software repositories for their MariaDB/MySQL related software:

• DEB Repository for Debian and Ubuntu
• RPM Repository for Redhat, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS and Fedora
• RPM Repository for SLES and OpenSuSE

DEB Repository for Debian and Ubuntu

For Debian and Ubuntu: Create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/FromDual.list and add the following information to it:

source /etc/os-release
# ID              : debian or ubuntu
# VERSION_CODENAME: buster bullseye focal jammy …