MariaDB is an open source RDBMS, that is designed to be a"drop-in" replacement for MySQL.

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How can I improve my table design for different types of an entity?

Consider an accounting system as an example. I have an Entity called Client. Client can be of different types, with different fields applicable to different types. I consider creating separate tables ...
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SHOW TABLE STATUS very slow on InnoDB

Recently we've been migrating from MyISAM to InnoDB and I understand that MyISAM uses meta information against each table to track information and such - however, the database is about 1.8gb with 1+ ...
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MySQL Full Text search increase relevance for exact matches?

I have a MySQL database of ~10,000 organisation names that I want to be able to search. I would like to use a full text search because this would enable me to find "institute of doobry" by searching ...
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Avoiding performance hit from GROUP BY during FULLTEXT search?

Is there any clever way to avoid the performance hit from using group by during fulltext search? SELECT p.topic_id, min(p.post_id) FROM forum_posts AS p WHERE MATCH (p.post_text) AGAINST ('baby ...
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Install MariaDB without password prompt in ubuntu

I need to install mariadb server in ubuntu without passwod prompt. For this purpose, I execute the following commands, but it doesn't gave me any progress. It again shows password prompt. I used the ...
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Does MariaDB-Galera Cluster support LAST_INSERT_ID and mysql_info?

As far as I understand, Galera does not support table locking, but what information can be retrieved about the last query? LOCK/UNLOCK TABLES cannot be supported in master-master replication. Lock ...
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Oracle Flashback Archive aka Total Recall in MySQL

What would you suggest as a replacement system to achieve the same functionality of Oracle Flashback Archive aka Total Recall in other DBMS, in general or specifically in MySQL or MariaDB? ...
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Autoincrement by 2

I use MariaDB 5.5. It increases every auto_increment value by 2. So all my ai cols look like 1 3 5 7 9 ... Where can I change this behaviour? Or might this be a bug?
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)! in Fedora16

I installed MariaDB server in linux using tar file(mariadb-5.5.28a-linux-i686.tar.gz) followed by the instructions from this link : https://kb.askmonty.org/en/installing-mariadb-binary-tarballs/. ...