diff --git a/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/prepare.sh b/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/prepare.sh
index 973f80c74ab29d51138f2af461f77197d7ce1ee5..bb96fc331723562a88fe1ce50254e7c45a651f58 100644
--- a/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/prepare.sh
+++ b/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/prepare.sh
@@ -113,6 +113,16 @@ else
 	sed -i "s#stopworkload:.*#stopworkload: \"systemctl stop mysql\" #g" $path/mysql_sysbench_server.yaml
 fi
 
+echo "Setting the executable path of the MySQL database"
+if [ -f /usr/bin/mysql ]; then
+	sed -i 's/MySQL_EXEC_PATH/\/usr\/bin\/mysql/g' $path/set_params.sh
+elif [ -f /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql ]; then
+	sed -i 's/MySQL_EXEC_PATH/\/usr\/local\/mysql\/bin\/mysql/g' $path/set_params.sh
+else
+	echo "Setting failed! No available mysql executable file is found."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
 echo "copy the server yaml file to /etc/atuned/tuning/"
 rm -rf /etc/atuned/tuning/mysql_sysbench_server.yaml
 sed -i "s#PATH#$path#g" $path/server.yaml
diff --git a/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/set_params.sh b/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/set_params.sh
index 698bf576061510727e1d8f468326dd24f5811702..129f38e7f8cb68b0d91eda6b18f0618bcffbaa6f 100644
--- a/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/set_params.sh
+++ b/examples/tuning/mysql_sysbench/set_params.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 params=$1
 value=$2
-/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -uroot -p123456 << EOF
+MySQL_EXEC_PATH -uroot -p123456 << EOF
 set GLOBAL $params = $2;
 quit
 EOF
 
-sed -i "s/^$params=.*$/$params=$value/g" /etc/my.cnf
\ No newline at end of file
+sed -i "s/^$params=.*$/$params=$value/g" /etc/my.cnf