Overview Profiling, analyzing and then fixing queries is likely the most oft-repeated part of a job of a DBA and one that keeps evolving, as new features are added to the application new queries pop up that need to be analyzed and fixed. And there are not too many tools out there that can make [...]
About Ovais Tariq
Ovais Tariq works as a Support Engineer for Percona. Before joining Percona, he worked for different types of companies ranging from a startup to a big media organization. He has worked in different roles, including that of a software engineer, development manager, DBA and consultant.
Identifying the load with the help of pt-query-digest and Percona Server
December 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
When EXPLAIN estimates can go wrong!
October 13, 2011 By 7 Comments
I have been working with a few customer cases and one interesting case popped up. The customer was facing a peculiar problem where the rows column in the EXPLAIN output of the query was totally off. The actual number of rows was 18 times more than the number of rows reported by MySQL in the [...]
