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mysqlsla v2.00 released

mysqlsla v2 is finally “done” and released. About 3 months ago, when v1.8 was released, I said it would be coming “soon,” but time just flew by and here we are. Oh well. In any case, the v1 branch is dead to me and v2 is all the rave (at least for me). If you don’t care about the differences and all you want is your default top 10 report from a slow log, for example, then all you need to know is: mysqlsla -lt slow SLOW_LOG

For those interested in what has changed to warrant a new major version number, here’s the briefing of changes/overhauls:

  1. Almost ALL new command line options (–log-type a.k.a. -lt is the most important); see the documentation
  2. Customizable reports. In v1 the report was hard-coded. Now with -rf FILE you can format your own report. See the …
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Guide To Understanding mysqlreport updated

The Guide To Understanding mysqlreport has been updated. As many people have noticed, since mysqlreport v3.2, Key Write and Read ratio went away, replaced by Write and Read hit percentage. I figured that “99.87%” was more intuitive than “0.0013″.

Updated: Non-technical Guide to Isolating Slow MySQL Queries

It’s strange what articles on one’s site become “popular.” I wrote Non-technical Guide to Isolating Slow MySQL Queries some time ago when I was an internal system admin at a data center. I wasn’t “customer-facing” but I still got requests from customers who wanted me to look at their MySQL server. Since that wasn’t my primary responsibility, I had to enlist their help to save me time. Hence, I wrote this article to help not-technically-inclined customers through the first few steps.

My webstats have shown this page to be hit more often than I would have expected. Consequently, I felt that I should update it, so I did.

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