MariaDB Essentials

Starting and stopping MariaDB

Depending on how MariaDB is installed, it may or may not start automatically at system startup. On Linux, it starts automatically if it is installed using the deb or rpm package. On Windows, it starts automatically if it is installed as a service. Whether or not MariaDB starts automatically, we will be able to start and stop it manually using the command line. The executable files that we need to call, as well as the client and other tools, are situated in the MariaDB binary directory. Since typing this path every time is not convenient, we will add it to the system paths.

On Linux, this is done by adding the path to the $PATH variable, as in the following example:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

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