Preface

Nowadays, computers are present everywhere, and they are all connected to each other. A lot of information is exchanged between them, but this data needs to be stored somewhere.

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, started when MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008. Sun Microsytems and MySQL were then acquired by Oracle in 2009.

In most Linux distributions, MariaDB is now the default package, providing a relational database that is compatible with MySQL.

MariaDB has interesting new features, better testing, performance improvement, and bug fixes that are not available in MySQL.

This book provides an introduction to the SQL language. It presents some advanced features of MariaDB and features that aren't present in MySQL but come with MariaDB. By the end of this book, you should be able get your own MariaDB database server running and take advantage of its features.