I missed it, and it's even in the examples of while loops in MariaDB. I didn't catch it since it wasn't in the text that it was required, I thought they were just being fancy with their example.

The MariaDB team estimates some 80 percent of legacy Oracle PL/SQL can be run as-is using the compatibility features. Note that the MariaDB command to use Oracle PL/SQL mode takes effect on a per ...

This setup is simple, but it does require attention to details. I assume that you have MariaDB set up on two machines, and one machine has a database with data. With that said, let’s set this up.