Running multiple instances of MariaDB
We have come across an occassion where we need to run multiple MariaDB databases on different port on the same Windows server. For our use case, each of the database represents a particular enviroment, eg. staging, sandbox or production. The same technique that I am going to illustrate will work for MySQL. Here’s how it was done. Upon installing MariaDB, we made a few copies of the data folder found in C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.11\data, and named them:- ...