June 19, 2013

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

admin_commands | 255868807 | 11893 | Why is something running an admin command constantly? This is generally a Ping commandqueries in odd statuses, like “statistics“, I know something weird is going on, and I look deeper. I also look at the queries

Post: Checking for a live database connection considered harmful

… ‘ping’ or ‘statisticscommand at the MySQL protocol level, which will increment Com_admin_commands in SHOW GLOBAL STATUS, or a trivial query such as ‘SELECT… on Rails app where the ‘Administrator command: statisticscommand was taking over 40% of the server’s total query time. Eliminating the useless connection…

Post: MySQL 5.6: Improvements in the Nutshell

…improvements available in MySQL 5.6 which… BY nidxcol LIMIT N – Persistent Statistics for Innodb – Improvements to …Utilities for Failover and Admin Transparency – Many new INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables -…Query Logs – SHA256 hashing with Salt for Authentication – Use obfuscated password storage for command