User's Manual: Building a Simple Database Test Plan</title><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkhref="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather:400normal"rel="stylesheet"type="text/css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../css/new-style.css"></head><bodyrole="document"><ahref="#content"class="hidden">Main content</a><divclass="header"><!--
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<p>In this section, you will learn how to create a basic
<ahref="build-test-plan.html">Test Plan</a> to test a database server.
<p>Set up the following fields (these assume we will be using a MySQL database called 'cloud'):</p>
<ul>
<li>Variable name (here: myDatabase) bound to pool. This needs to uniquely identify the configuration. It is used by the JDBC Sampler to identify the configuration to be used.</li>
</div><divclass="section"><h1id="adding_listener">7.3 Adding a Listener to View/Store the Test Results<aclass="sectionlink"href="#adding_listener"title="Link to here">¶</a></h1>
<p>The final element you need to add to your Test Plan is a
<ahref="component_reference.html#listeners">Listener</a>. This element is
responsible for storing all of the results of your JDBC requests in a file
