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+Note: we have included a script only for MariaDB because the other database systems
+we have tested work fine with Hibernate to generate a database schema.
+
+With MariaDB, the Hibernate-generated SQL causes errors so we include a script that 
+yields a useable database.
+Note: this may also be the case with MySQL.