A year ago, I blogged about An Unprivileged User can crash your MySQL Server.  At the time, I explained how to protect yourself against this problem.  A few weeks ago, I revisited this vulnerability in a follow-up post in which I explained the fix, claimed that the MySQL 5.7 default configuration for Group Replication is still problematic, and explained a tuning to avoid the

This post is the nine one of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• …

This post is the eight one of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• …

This post is the seventh post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• …

For my presentation for the next FOSDEM MySQL Devroom, I needed to create some load.

As usual, for this task, what better than sysbench ?

The “problem” was that my system was already setup and I used OL7 on the always free Ampere compute instance on OCI.

As you may know, this is an ARM architecture (aarch64) and there was not sysbench rpm package available for this OS and architecture.

I also wanted to have sysbench compiled and linked with MySQL 8.0 libraries [1], [ …

This post is the sixth post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• …

This post is the fifth post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• …

This post is the fourth post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure, the list above will be updated as new articles are published:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 4: error logging
• …

This post is the third post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 4: error logging
• …

This post is the second post of a series of articles on extending MySQL with the Component Infrastructure:

• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 1
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 2: building the server
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 3: component services
• Extending MySQL using the Component Infrastructure – part 4: error logging
• …