# Run a Replicated Stateful Application — Sending client traffic

> You can send test queries to the primary MySQL server (hostname mysql-0.mysql) by running a temporary container with the mysql:5.7 image and running the mysql client binary.

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## Knowledge

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You can send test queries to the primary MySQL server (hostname mysql-0.mysql) by running a temporary container with the mysql:5.7 image and running the mysql client binary.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl run mysql-client --image=mysql:5.7 -i --rm --restart=Never --\
  mysql -h mysql-0.mysql &lt;&lt;EOF
CREATE DATABASE test;
CREATE TABLE test.messages (message VARCHAR(250));
INSERT INTO test.messages VALUES ('hello');
EOF
```

Use the hostname mysql-read to send test queries to any server that reports being Ready

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl run mysql-client --image=mysql:5.7 -i -t --rm --restart=Never --\
  mysql -h mysql-read -e "SELECT * FROM test.messages"
```

You should get output like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
Waiting for pod default/mysql-client to be running, status is Pending, pod ready: false
+---------+
| message |
+---------+
| hello   |
+---------+
pod "mysql-client" deleted
```

To demonstrate that the mysql-read Service distributes connections across servers, you can run SELECT @@server_id in a loop

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl run mysql-client-loop --image=mysql:5.7 -i -t --rm --restart=Never --\
  bash -ic "while sleep 1; do mysql -h mysql-read -e 'SELECT @@server_id,NOW()'; done"
```

You should see the reported @@server_id change randomly, because a different endpoint might be selected upon each connection attempt

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
+-------------+---------------------+
| @@server_id | NOW()               |
+-------------+---------------------+
|         100 | 2006-01-02 15:04:05 |
+-------------+---------------------+
+-------------+---------------------+
| @@server_id | NOW()               |
+-------------+---------------------+
|         102 | 2006-01-02 15:04:06 |
+-------------+---------------------+
+-------------+---------------------+
| @@server_id | NOW()               |
+-------------+---------------------+
|         101 | 2006-01-02 15:04:07 |
+-------------+---------------------+
```

You can press Ctrl+C when you want to stop the loop, but it's useful to keep it running in another window so you can see the effects of the following steps.

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