Documented: The MariaDB Server (Community) Contribution Process

If you ever considered contributing code to the MariaDB server, you should know that this is an intricate process involving multiple steps and multiple actors. To help you see your contributions successfully merged into the MariaDB Server codebase I’ve compiled a comprehensive description of the contribution process itself, the roles involved into it, the sequence of actions and conditions for transition from one to another. …

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Unleashing Innovation Through Plugins

One of the corner stones in MariaDB Foundation’s mission is:

We strive to increase adoption by users and across use cases, platforms and means of deployment. …

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Adding a New Data Type to MariaDB with Type_handler – Part 5

We are concluding our series related to new data types using the Type_handler framework, with some limitations that are not yet covered by the framework:
It would have been handy for our MONEY datatype to have the possibility to define, for example, the currency to show. …

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Adding a New Data Type to MariaDB with Type_handler – Part 4

This is part 4 of a series related to extending MariaDB with a custom data type using the Type_handler framework.
You can find the previous articles below:
Overriding Existing Types
In the previous examples, our MONEY data type inherits from DOUBLE and then we override some methods. …

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Long live to dbdeployer!

As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database. …

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