Last week, Jan 18th, we started 2022 with a new release of the MySQL Server suite (Router, Shell, Connectors, …).

MySQL is Open Source and each release contains contributions from our great Community. Let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the entire MySQL Team: Thank you !

As Dave already mentioned already in his MySQL 8.0.28 Release Note Commentary post, this new version of MySQL includes contributions from Song Zhibai, Venkatesh Prasad Venugopal, Zheng Lai, Tingu Wei, Casa Zhang, Kevin Michel, our Øystein Grøvlen before his comeback, Tsubasa Tanaka, Brian Yue, Murakami Kohei, Casa Zhang, Hope Lee, Rahul Malik, Hobert Lu, Zhai Weixiang and Facebook.

Once again, thank you all for your …

Today we are already at the post number ten of the series of articles related to 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 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
• …