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I didn't either until it bit me in the ass a few months back - often it's shitty proprietary software being only compatible with "genuine" (oracle) MySQL.

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To be fair to vendors, it's increasingly difficult to maintain compatibility with both! Here's my very long rundown of the differences in tables/DDL alone: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/05/10/mysql-vs-mariadb-schem...

...and that doesn't even account for differences in global variables/configuration, SQL syntax, functions, replication, etc.

This is very informative, thank you.

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