diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f842303..9876a70 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - run: docker compose up -d
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
         with:
           version: ${{ matrix.version }}
           arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      - uses: actions/cache@v1
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
         env:
           cache-name: cache-artifacts
         with:
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 56644cf..7937c20 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ DecFP = "55939f99-70c6-5e9b-8bb0-5071ed7d61fd"
 Libdl = "8f399da3-3557-5675-b5ff-fb832c97cbdb"
 MariaDB_Connector_C_jll = "aabc7e14-95f1-5e66-9f32-aea603782360"
 Parsers = "69de0a69-1ddd-5017-9359-2bf0b02dc9f0"
+Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 
 [compat]
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ DBInterface = "2.5"
 DecFP = "0.4.9, 0.4.10, 1"
 MariaDB_Connector_C_jll = "3.1.12"
 Parsers = "0.3, 1, 2"
+Random = "1.11.0"
 Tables = "1"
 julia = "1.6"
 
diff --git a/src/MySQL.jl b/src/MySQL.jl
index 8c2ccf6..18397e1 100644
--- a/src/MySQL.jl
+++ b/src/MySQL.jl
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ module MySQL
 
 using Dates, DBInterface, Tables, Parsers, DecFP
 import DBInterface: transaction
+import Random
 
 export DBInterface, DateAndTime
 
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index bfd18b2..344844e 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ for nm in keys(res)
     @test isequal(res[nm], expected[nm][1:4])
 end
 
+#https://github.com/JuliaDatabases/MySQL.jl/issues/226
+ct0 = (x = UInt8[1, 22, 23],)
+MySQL.load(ct0,conn, debug=true)
+#there is no @test invocation here; but the above call failed due to Random not being imported
 
 # now test insert/parameter binding
 DBInterface.execute(conn, "DELETE FROM Employee")
@@ -299,7 +303,7 @@ res, st = state
 ret = columntable(res)
 @test length(ret[1]) == 5
 state = iterate(results, st)
-@test state !== nothing
+@test state !== nothing 
 res, st = state
 @test !st
 @test length(res) == 4