Managing MariaDB databases

Now that our MariaDB server is up and running, we can finally look into managing it. In this section, I’ll demonstrate how to connect to a database server using the mariadb command, which will allow us to create databases, remove (drop) them, and also manage users and permissions.

To begin, we’ll need to create an administrative user for MariaDB. The root account already exists as the default administrative user, but it’s not a good idea to allow others to use that account. Instead, it makes more sense to create an administrative account separate from root for managing our databases. Therefore, we’ll begin our discussion on managing databases with user management. The users we’ll manage within MariaDB are specific to MariaDB; these are separate from the user accounts on the actual system.

To manage and interact with databases, we’ll need to enter the MariaDB shell, and the same goes for when it comes to creating...