Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 36 Server version: 10.4.7-MariaDB-1:10.4.7+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> show variables like 'session_track_system_variables'; +--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | session_track_system_variables | autocommit,character_set_client,character_set_connection,character_set_results,time_zone | +--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.001 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> SET GLOBAL session_track_system_variables='autocommit,character_set_client,character_set_connection,character_set_results,time_zone,last_gtid'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> quit Bye $ sudo mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 37 Server version: 10.4.7-MariaDB-1:10.4.7+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> show variables like 'session_track_system_variables'; +--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | session_track_system_variables | autocommit,character_set_client,character_set_connection,character_set_results,last_gtid,time_zone | +--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.001 sec) MariaDB [(none)]>