Perl DBI

Perl DBI connector overview for MariaDB, introducing the DBD::MariaDB driver as the recommended alternative to DBD::mysql for connecting Perl applications to MariaDB.

• The DBD-MariaDB driver is a DBI driver for connecting to MariaDB database server.

  • Documentation

  • DBD-MariaDB driver

  • Source code

  • Bug reporting

• The DBD-mysql driver for MySQL should generally work with MariaDB as well, although it has a number of bugs that have not been attended to, hence the need for DBD::MariaDB:

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