May 14
David MartinezSQL
Put this somewhere in your ~/bin:
watch 'echo "show processlist" | mysql -u whateveruser --password=mypassword | grep -v "show processlist" '
Now run it and you will have a poor man's monitor, kind of like top but for MySQL. That coupled with screen (or multiple terminals) may give you some quick and easy piece of mind.
This should give you *a lot* of monitoring automation ideas. It should be easy to put together a shell script that puts it all in a little "important things panel" to use watch on. Sometimes that's all you need.
Jun 20
David MartinezCBBTR, SQL
Every once in a while you will get a query that no matter what you try, it doesn't use the indices. This is typically because the cost-based optimizer decides that an approach that is slower has a total cost that is lower than using the index and making it faster.
To solve this, you would use a hint. You can find an article on how to do this on dbasupport. But the basics are: More
Jun 20
David MartinezCBBTR, SQL
In order to make queries run faster, you should try to have oracle explain to you how the query should be performed.
The whole explanation for oracle tuning can be found on the Oracle Tuning guide, but here are the basics. More
Apr 05
David MartinezCBBTR, SQL
This tip contains a couple of MySQL scripts that allow me to create and drop a database and a user that will "own" said database. More
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