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=head1 DBD::MariaDB - database driver for Perl
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This is the Perl L<DBI> driver for access to MariaDB and MySQL databases.
The goal of our effort was to fix MariaDB compatibility, Perl Unicode support
and security related bugs.
This Perl DBI driver is a fork of the L<DBD::mysql> driver and was created
because said issues in the original DBD::mysql have not been addressed for more
than a year.
=head2 Usage
Usage of this Perl DBI driver is described in L<DBD::MariaDB>.
=head2 Installation
Installation is described in L<DBD::MariaDB::INSTALL>.
=head2 Support
This module comes with no warranty and is distributed as is.
To participate in a general discussion about Perl DBI with other DBI users,
subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email to
L<C<dbi-users-subscribe@perl.org>|mailto:dbi-users-subscribe@perl.org>.
Mailing list archives are available at the
L<Perl DBI Users' Forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/perl.dbi.users>.
=head2 License
This module is released under the same license as Perl itself. See
L<Perl Licensing|https://dev.perl.org/licenses/> for details.
=head2 Contributing
Contributions are welcome.