Microslow patch is used by many DBAs and developers to accurately time their queries and to catch those which run less than a second as they can also be a performance killer for a busy application. Recently I have started the development of an updated version of the patch. The basic idea is the same [...]
Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers – Part I
Its almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers to only some of the questions but as people still poking me about this I decided to publish the answers I have so far. Plus we may get some interesting follow up questions [...]
Guess what?! Microsecond slow query timing finally available in MySQL!
Vadim asked me yesterday to update Microslow patch for 5.1.21, because the previous one I wrote for 5.1.20 failed to apply correctly on the new MySQL release. Imagine the expression on my face after I unpacked the sources and found out that MySQL incorporated the patch to their release. So it’s a built-in feature now [...]
New MySQL Community Release Policies published
Yesterday Kaj Published changes to MySQL Community Release Policies. I knew about them a bit in advance but now they are public I can comment a bit. In general I’m disappointed and think this is moving in the wrong direction, it also makes me to think hard if MySQL is out of more creative solutions [...]
Microslow patch for 5.1.20
Microslow patch has been there for some time, but only for earlier MySQL editions such as 4.1 and 5.0. Now it’s also available for the latest 5.1. Because MySQL went through a lot of internal changes, the patch had to be written from scratch. It introduces some minor change in existing functionality and also adds [...]
Microslow patch for 5.0.37
Just short message that patch enables microsecond resolution in slow-log (see more http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/06/slow-query-log-analyzes-tools/) for 5.0.37 is available here: www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/files/patches/patch.slow-micro.5.0.37.diff The patch for 5.0.41 : www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/files/patches/patch.slow-micro.5.0.41.diff
MySQL Releases first real Community Release
Few days ago MySQL released MySQL 5.0.37 which I would call first real Community Version, because unlike previous versions which were released from the same source tree as Enterprise MySQL this one has some community features added, which is great. Also over last half a year MySQL seems to have organized resources for Community Engineering [...]
Backport of micro-time patch to mysql 4.1
Taking into account 4.1 tree is still popular and is used on many production servers we decided to make backport of patch to slow-log queries. The patch allows to specify time of slow queries in microseconds and is very helpful in a fight with problematic queries. 4.1 Patch is available here (The original patch was [...]
Slow Query Log analyzes tools
MySQL has simple but quite handy feature – slow query log, which allows you to log all queries which took over define number of seconds to execute. There is also an option to enable logging queries which do not use indexes even if they take less time (–log-queries-not-using-indexes) Slow query log is great to spot [...]

