UPDATE : Post is not actual anymore Not so long time ago I had task to update string column in table with 10mil+ rows, and, as the manipulation was non-trivial, I decided this task is good to try Stored Function. Function written – go ahead. Since 5 min I got totally frozen box with no [...]
Query_cache and column level privileges
August 6, 2007 By 5 Comments
Recently we were puzzled by question how query_cache works with column level privileges. The question was appeared as we discovered function query_cache_send_result_to_client is called before real parsing of query, so at the moment of execution the query_cache is not able to know which columns are accessed. Looking into source code I found out that in [...]
MySQL Slow query log in the table
May 31, 2007 By 1 Comment
As of MySQL 5.1 get MySQL slow query log logged in mysql.slow_log table instead of the file as you had in previous versions. We rarely would use this feature as it is incompatible with our slow query analyses patch and tools Fixing this is not trivial while staying 100% compatible to standard format as TIME [...]
GROUP_CONCAT useful GROUP BY extension
September 4, 2006 By 48 Comments
MySQL has useful extention to the GROUP BY operation: function GROUP_CONCAT: GROUP_CONCAT(expr) – This function returns a string result with the concatenated non-NULL values from a group. Where it can be useful?
