MySQL to Maria DB Migration | Linux Today

MySQL to Maria DB Migration

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Michael "mngrif" Griffith
Aug 2, 2013

With Oracle’s fairly recent acquisition of MySQL, a lot of people are looking to move away from MySQL in fear of Oracle changing the licensing, which could force you to change database backends. As such, today we’ll migrate from MySQL to MariaDB, which is a popular alternative to MySQL.

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Michael "mngrif" Griffith

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