https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/component/ Recent content in Component on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/2026-06-22-extending-mysql-capabilities/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/2026-06-22-extending-mysql-capabilities/ MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual For the purposes of this post I will be using the current LTS version MySQL 8.