Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MariaDB 12.3 capabilities before they become generally available. MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, a SQL Standard IS JSON predicate for native JSON validation, and a basic XML data type. It adds support for cursors on prepared statements and allows UPDATE/DELETE operations to read from Comm
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