The improved Performance Schema in MySQL 5.6 provides a new way of investigating issues in the database. Many issues that previously required tools such as strace, dtrace, etc. can now be investigated directly from inside MySQL in a platform independent …

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When you have a non-trivial database installation, you will inevitably sooner or later encounter performance related issues ranging from a query not executing as fast as desirable to complete meltdowns where the database does not respond at all. Until MySQL …

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