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I installed MariaDB on my server (both client & server), and now want to also connect to an external MySQL server from it.
It seems like although the client command is mysql, the version is MariaDB:
$ mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.0.4-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Is there any harm in using this to connect to MySQL servers?
Murat Ayfer
Posted 2013-11-14T22:24:29.943
Reputation: 111
2Almost certainly not; on the one hand, the protocols are probably still identical or very nearly so, and on the other, an impedance mismatch between them should result in nothing worse than a forcible disconnect or an error message on the client side. – Aaron Miller – 2013-11-14T22:38:44.597