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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19h
Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Free/Open Source Software in Education, Science & Business. Online conference by Chernihiv Polytechnic National University 🦭👩‍🎓 feit.stu.cn.ua/foss/ #mariadb #education
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The first guess of Simona for the #MariaDB 𝙹𝙾𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙰𝙱𝙻𝙴𝚂 series is.... Sveta! Check it out ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKE9... 🦭📺️
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JOIN TABLES - foundation JOIN sveta_smirnova
YouTube video by MariaDB Foundation
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌊 TideSQL 5 + MariaDB! 🦭 TidesDB's LSM storage engine is evolving fast: MVCC, TTL, indexes, vector & full-text search, replication, Galera and more. I took another look at it 👀 mariadb.org/tidesql-5-an... #MariaDB #TidesDB
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The MariaDB Database Survey 2026 is open - our second annual survey. We revamped the questions! Anonymous, under 10 minutes, closes mid-October, results at mariadb.org/survey: mariadb.typeform.com/to/tS69UzVo?... #MariaDB #MySQL #PostgreSQL #databases #opensource
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MariaDB Database Survey 2026 - MariaDB.org
How are developers and organizations really using MariaDB and other databases? Tell us. This year’s survey is mostly fresh new questions, with a few kept to show trends from last year. … Continue read...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you are interested to hear about #MariaDB innovation at #NextcloudConf26 don’t hesitate to catch me during the breaks (I have stickers too)
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slides of my session about Privacy-First stack at #NextcloudConf26 are now online speakerdeck.com/lefred/how-n... 🦭☁️🔑
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How Nextcloud is an integral part of the Privacy-First Stack supported by the MariaDB Foundation
Lightning talk presented at NextCloud Community Conference 2026 in Berlin
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
At #NextcloudConf26 ? Don’t miss the #MariaDB session this afternoon ! 🦭☁️
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#NextcloudConf26 started! Packed main stage and there is an extra overflow room! This afternoon I will be on that stage to talk about the collaboration between #MariaDB Foundation , #Nextcloud and #passbolt
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#NextCloud Community conference 2026 is filling up before the start !! This afternoon, come to listen to me, I will present our Privacy-First Solution Stack that also includes #passbolt #mariadb
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MariaDB 13.0 is now stable! Read more➡️ mariadb.org/mariadb-13-0... 🦭 1️⃣3️⃣ #mariadb
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will be presenting the Privacy-First stack that includes #mariadb #nextcloud and #passbolt at the NextCoud Conference on Saturday in Berlin 🦭☁️🔑 nextcloud.com/conference-2...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey, look what's popping up on my server! 🦭 #MariaDB #opensource #database
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Back from #PerconaLive ! Thank you for having us, the MariaDB Foundation, there. The atmosphere was so great and friendly! See you next year!!
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s now Sergei’s turn to shine on stage at #perconalive to talk about MariaDB Protocol Security Enhancement ! 🦭🔐
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins speakerdeck.com/lefred/exten... #perconalive 🦭 #speakerdeck
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Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins
MariaDB is not only a database server you configure and operate; it is also a platform you can extend. With server plugins, you can add new SQL function…
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Come to visit us at the #MariaDB Foundation booth during #PerconaLive and take our quizz 🦭
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Almost the last train 🚆 for #perconalive Next stop will be Amsterdam Zuid. Come to meet the MariaDB Team 🦭🦭🦭
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey!! I just realised I will meet my long time friend and colleague with who it all started ! #sdog #perconalive
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My journey to Percona Live is at the starting point!! See you in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Migrating from #MySQL 8.4 to #MariaDB Server? The data wasn't the annoying part… migrating lots of users using caching_sha2_password was. 😅 So I extended pt-show-grants with a --convert-to-MariaDB option. Part 2 of my migration story 👇 lefred.be/content/deal...
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MySQL to MariaDB: Migrating caching_sha2_password Users with pt-show-grants
Migrating users from MySQL 8.4 to MariaDB can be tricky with caching_sha2_password. See how I extended pt-show-grants to automate the process.
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🐍 Python? 🦀 Rust? Go? JavaScript? We asked which language developers would use to write #MariaDB plugins — and 2,090 people answered. If you'd like to help us explore it, MDEV-40189 is waiting for contributors! 👉 mariadb.org/mariadb-plug...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Community feedback helps improve compatibility. 🦭 An update on MariaDB Connector/C and CONC-821: what changed, how it affected applications, and the work to restore and document the earlier behavior. mariadb.org/mariadb-conn... #MariaDB #OpenSource
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The September edition of the MariaDB Foundation Newsletter is now available! 🦭📰 mariadb.org/mariadb-foun...
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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026 - MariaDB.org
August belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. Meanwhile the Q3...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🦭 MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 Check out the sessions and come meet us in Amsterdam! 👇 mariadb.org/mariadb-at-p... #PerconaLive #OpenSource #MariaDB
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ever wondered what really changed between two #MariaDB Server versions? 🦭 I built a small tool to quickly compare system variables, status variables, privileges, plugins, storage engines, keywords, and more. 👉 lefred.be/content/mari...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🦭 Who is building MariaDB Server? The numbers for the first half of 2026 are in—and the community is a big part of the answer. 👥 Take a look at the MariaDB contribution statistics for January–June 2026: 🔗 mariadb.org/mariadb-cont...
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MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026 - MariaDB.org
After a long break, I will be taking over reporting on the contributions. FYI, the last one was done in Jan 2025. Just like last time, I’m going to start with a breakdown of all the organizations who ...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
MariaDB Server 12.3.3, 11.8.9, 11.4.13 and 10.11.19 are out! 🦭 And if you're still running MariaDB 10.6… this one's for you: 10.6 has reached EOL, and there will be no 10.6.29. Upgrade time! 🔧 🔗 mariadb.org/mariadb-serv... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Database
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Look what was waiting for me this morning on my Fedora machine 👀 #MariaDB 12.3.3 is out! 🦭
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
MariaDB InnoDB Disk Space & Fragmentation - track them, visualize them, optimize them and reclaim disk space lefred.be/content/mari... #mariadb #innodb 🦭 💾
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE improvements mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... #mariadb #json 🦭
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Join me at #PerconaLive I will be speaking about MariaDB Server plugins perconalive.com/2026-amsterd... #mariadb 🦭🧩
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A MariaDB plugin doesn’t need one million users. Sometimes it only needs to solve one very specific problem really well. I experimented with that idea by teaching MariaDB about two very Belgian concepts 🇧🇪 lefred.be/content/teac... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Database #SQL #Plugins
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Teaching MariaDB About Your Domain
MariaDB Plugins: Sometimes the Best Feature Is the One Only a Few People Need - take a look at those specific data types for the Belgian market!
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How does a production database problem become an open-source improvement? This is the story of how Headout, Arcadiy Ivanov and MariaDB maintainers turned a JSON and temporary-table bottleneck into an upstream #MariaDB Server contribution: mariadb.org/from-a-produ... 🦭🙏
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Adobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default database platform as MySQL support ends. Discover what this means for Magento users and future workloads. mariadb.org/adobe-commer... Welcome to MariaDB! 🦭 #mariadb #magento #adobeCommerce
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MariaDB's plugin interface lets you create new storage engines (see DuckDB & TideSQL), and it also makes it easy to extend the server. Interested in extra plugins? Check this out ➡️ lefred.be/my-mariadb-s... #mariadb #community #plugins
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My MariaDB Server Plugins - lefred blog: tribulations of a MariaDB Community Advocate
mariadb-plugin-variable-ownerMariaDB information schema plugin that reports, for every system variable known to the server, who registered itmariadb-plugin-gtid-infoGTID Info and Flashback Plugin for ...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MariaDB and MySQL share history, protocols, tools and community—but they are not the same product. And yes, MariaDB bugs reach us faster when they are reported to MariaDB Jira. mariadb.org/say-the-name... 🦭🐬 #mariadb #mysql #community
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What if you could reverse a transaction directly from its GTID? Here is the result of an idea and a script dating back around ten years: discover the GTID Info plugin, which analyses binary logs and generates reverse SQL code for DML operations. lefred.be/content/mari... 🦭🧩
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Deploy the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OpenStack. mariadb.org/deploying-th... 🦭☁️🔑 #mariadb #passbolt #nextcloud
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Check how to install our Privacy-First Stack on OCI: youtu.be/jauRdrVM-8k #mariadb #nextcloud #passbolt 🦭☁️🔑
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MariaDB Privacy-First Stack - multicloud: deploy on OCI
YouTube video by lefred
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
How do you migrate a large fintech platform from PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11 without a risky big-bang cutover? This real-world migration took a gradual, object-by-object approach—and achieved 23% lower TCO and 20% faster time-to-market. mariadb.org/from-postgre... #MariaDB #PostgreSQL #Database
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From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gradual Fintech Migration with 23% Lower TCO - MariaDB.org
See how a fintech migrated 80–100 TB from PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11, cutting TCO by 23% through CDC, dual writes and gradual migration.
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
MariaDB Tips & Tricks: Where does my configuration variable value come from?? 🦭 lefred.be/content/mari...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
MariaDB 13.1 Preview: Avoid MariaDB Restart Failures with --validate-config mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... 🦭 ✅️
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Discover how the native MariaDB ADBC driver connects MariaDB Server with Apache Arrow, supporting queries, prepared statements, bulk ingestion, transactions, metadata, statistics, and more. ⏩️ 🦭 lefred.be/content/a-na...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Install the MariaDB ADBC driver, configure a DuckDB profile 🦆, and query MariaDB 🦭 data directly from DuckDB. #mariadb #duckdb #adbc lefred.be/content/when...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So happy that my #Firefox add-on is now available. If you were looking for Group Tab management, take a look at it! 🦊🧩 lefred.be/content/fire...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Did you know that #MariaDB Server 🦭 supports online schema changes? Take a look 👀 at this other hidden gem! 💎 mariadb.org/mariadb-hidd...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Contributing to MariaDB Server isn’t only about code or bug reports. You can also help by enabling the Feedback Plugin, so we can better understand community environments and which features are used most. mariadb.org/feedback-plu... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Community
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Great work by Aracadyi on bringing BLOB, TEXT, JSON, and GEOMETRY support to the HEAP engine in MariaDB 13.1—an important improvement that helps more temporary tables stay in memory for better performance. mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Database 🦭🙏
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Meet Federico Razzoli, one of the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions nominees 🦭 In this interview, Federico shares his thoughts on open source, database communities, vector search, and the future of MariaDB. Read it here: mariadb.org/mariadb-foun...
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lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Let us know which language you would like to use to write your MariaDB plugins once MDEV-40189 is done! mariadb.org/poll-which-l... 🦭 🧩 📊
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