Usually unused indexes are devil, they waste diskspace, cache, they make INSERT / DELETE / UPDATE operations slower and what makes them worse – it is hard to find them. But now ( with userstatsV2.patch) you can find all unused indexes (since last restart of mysqld) by single query SELECT DISTINCT s.TABLE_SCHEMA, s.TABLE_NAME, s.INDEX_NAME FROM [...]
Google’s user_statistics V2 port and changes
Recently Google published V2 release of patches, one of them user_statistics we use in our releases. New features are quite interesting so we decided to port it to fresh releases of MySQL. Features includes: New statistics per user (Cpu_time, Bytes_received, Bytes_sent, etc) New command SHOW CLIENT_STATISTICS, which shows statistics per client’s hostname, not per user [...]
What Bugs makes you to recomend upgrade most frequently ?
What bug makes you to recommend upgrading most frequently ? For me it is this bug which makes it quite painful to automate various replication tasks. It is not the most critical bug by far but this makes it worse – critical bugs would usually cause upgrades already or were worked around while such stuff [...]

