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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
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    Almost 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 Nov 14 '13 at 22:38

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