It has been seven years since the last time I blogged about generated columns, and a lot has happened -- now both MariaDB and MySQL support them. So it's time to look again, see how well they're doing, and compare to the SQL standard's Optional feature T175 Generated columns.
This is not an introductory description or an explanation why you'd want to use generated columns rather than (say) triggers and views. For that, I'd recommend the relevant manuals or the blog posts by Alexander Rubin and Anders Karlsson.
The Generation Clause
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