I need to learn what sql is. But am too scared of creating a database as root. This is my current "progress":

$pacman -Syu mariadb  # succeeds
$mysql_install_db --basedir=~/.sql/install --datadir=~/.sql/dat
FATAL ERROR: Could not find my_print_defaults

Now what? Give me an sql 101 tutorial with whichever implementation is popular with Arch.

I need to learn what sql is. But am too scared of creating a database as root. This is my current "progress":

$pacman -Syu mariadb  # succeeds
$mysql_install_db --basedir=~/.sql/install --datadir=~/.sql/dat
FATAL ERROR: Could not find my_print_defaults

Now what? Give me an sql 101 tutorial with whichever implementation is popular with Arch.

@fra-san Of course

@terdon I was following this Everyone says Maria is the best, I just don't know how to handle her.

@JeffSchaller I want to have a non-privileged database I can play with.