Introduction

This chapter is all about getting us up and running with MariaDB using basic recipes, which provide the foundation for the other recipes in this book.

The first three recipes are the most basic of all the recipes and cover installing MariaDB on the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. We'll then cover a couple of common configuration options and some common maintenance tasks.

We'll finish the chapter with a recipe on the progress reporting feature of the mysql client application.