mariadb-connector-cpp-usage

MariaDB-specific behavior of MariaDB Connector/C++ (the sql:: namespace API, modeled on JDBC 4.0) for application code — that a driver comes from sql::mariadb::get_driver_instance() and connections from driver->connect(url, props), returning a raw Connection* you must own; that the URL is jdbc:mariadb://host:port/database[?opt=val]; that PreparedStatement parameter indexes and ResultSet column indexes are 1-based, not 0-based; that ? is the only placeholder; that ResultSet::next() must be called before the first read; that the API returns raw pointers with no automatic cleanup — wrap them in std::unique_ptr or close() explicitly, child before parent; that sql::SQLString is the parameter/return type throughout; that autocommit defaults to true; that errors surface as sql::SQLException; and that it is built on Connector/C. Use when writing or reviewing C++ code that talks to MariaDB via Connector/C++ (the sql:: API).