How do I upgrade MySQL to MariaDB?

How do I upgrade MySQL to MariaDB?

How to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB on Linux in five steps

1. Update your software repositories list with the MariaDB repos.
2. Update your Linux package manager with the new repos.
3. Stop MySQL.
4. Install MariaDB with your package manager.
5. Go back to work because you’re done.

How do I update my MariaDB database?

The suggested upgrade procedure is:

1. Modify the repository configuration, so the system’s package manager installs MariaDB 10.4.
2. Stop MariaDB.
3. Uninstall the old version of MariaDB.
4. Install the new version of MariaDB.
5. Make any desired changes to configuration options in option files, such as my.
6. Start MariaDB.

How do I know if MariaDB is installed?

How to check MariaDB version

1. Log into your MariaDB instance, in our case we log in using the command: mysql -u root -p.
2. After you log in you can see your version in the welcome text – highlighted in the screen-grab below:
3. If you cannot see your version here you can also run the following command to see it:

How do I install MariaDB?

To install MariaDB on Windows, you follow these steps:

1. Start installation. Double-click the installer to start the installation process.
2. Accept the end-user license agreement.
3. Select features.
4. Set root’s password.
5. Configure Database.
6. Submit usage information.
7. Ready to install MariaDB.
8. Complete the MariaDB setup.

How to reset MariaDB into a fresh install?

MariaDB can be reverted to the fresh state by removing its data files. At the start if no datafiles exists MariaDB will recreate the internal scheme mysql.* with all default values. All leftovers like config and log files you have to clean up by hands.

Can you upgrade from MySQL to MariaDB on Windows?

You can also use your old MySQL connector packages with MariaDB if you want. On Windows, you should not uninstall MySQL and install MariaDB, this would not work, the existing database will not be found. Thus On Windows, just install MariaDB and use the upgrade wizard which is part of installer package and is launched by MSI installer.

Which is better MySQL my CNF or MariaDB?

All the options in your original MySQL my.cnf file should work fine for MariaDB. However as MariaDB has more features than MySQL, there is a few things that you should consider changing in your my.cnf file.

What to do if you have a problem with MySQL upgrade?

If you have a problem with mysql_upgrade try run it in very verbose mode: mysql_upgrade also saves the MariaDB version number in a file named mysql_upgrade_info in the data directory. This is used to quickly check whether all tables have been checked for this release so that table-checking can be skipped.