wp-admin/includes/class-wp-debug-data.php:1827Returns the value of a MySQL system variable.
$mysql_varstringstring|null public static function get_mysql_var( $mysql_var ) { global $wpdb; $result = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( 'SHOW VARIABLES LIKE %s', $mysql_var ), ARRAY_A ); if ( ! empty( $result ) && array_key_exists( 'Value', $result ) ) { return $result['Value']; } return null; }Introduced in 5.9.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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