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Install MariaDB on Ubuntu with APT, distinguish service activity from automatic startup, and understand socket authentication. Create a restricted TCP learning account and diagnose connection or service problems.

Set up a local MariaDB server on Windows, verify its service and TCP connection, and create a database-scoped learning account. Follow practical checks for installation, port, path, and authentication problems.

Understand the roles of the MariaDB server and client, the structure of relational data, and the purpose of SQL. Learn how MariaDB relates to MySQL and prepare for a small product-database exercise.

Build a font stack with appropriate generic fallbacks and inspect the fonts actually used. Distinguish naming a family from loading files and covering characters.

Request italic or oblique forms while accounting for real faces and synthesis. Separate visual styling from emphasis semantics and inspect font-loading failures.

Choose text-size units by their reference and test nested em scaling. Check the actual root size, browser enlargement, and layout constraints.

Style list markers while keeping ordered and unordered semantics. Compare numbering styles, starting values, marker removal, and shorthand resets.

Generate strings, attribute labels, counters, and decorative pseudo-elements. Compare none with an empty string and retain important information in real HTML.

Choose generated quotation pairs for nested text and distinguish them from literal punctuation. Compare automatic marks, none, and quotation-depth operations.

Use small capitals without changing the source string and choose specific variant longhands. Compare real font support with synthesized presentation.