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# Perl DBI

* The DBD-MariaDB driver is a DBI driver for connecting to MariaDB database server.
  * [Documentation](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::MariaDB)
  * [DBD-MariaDB driver](https://metacpan.org/release/DBD-MariaDB)
  * [Source code](https://github.com/gooddata/DBD-MariaDB)
  * [Bug reporting](https://github.com/gooddata/DBD-MariaDB/issues)
* 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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