Projects Penguin Icons MySQL Tools Speed up 'make' Solutions for Boost book exercises Dell Inspiron 1150 Dell Inspiron 2200 Network Monitoring SPF for Sylpheed / Claws Mail KDE EMail Settings Trium Galaxy Speed Dragon Genius GS-4500 Scanner Compatibility Konica KD-200Z Lifetec 9415 SYN Flood Protection Blocking AdWords OpenOffice HTML Export Elster durch die Firewall		NAME mysql_explain_slow_log Feed a mysqld slow log back into mysql and collect statistics about index usage with EXPLAIN. DISCUSSION To optimize your indices, you have to know which ones are actually used and what kind of queries are causing table scans. Especially if you are generating your queries dynamically and you have a huge amount of queries going on, this isn't easy. Use this tool to take a look at the effects of your real life queries. Then add indices to avoid table scans and remove those which aren't used. USAGE mysql_explain_slow_log [--date=YYMMDD] --host=dbhost] [--user=dbuser] [--password=dbpw] [--socket=/path/to/socket] [--printerror=1] < logfile --date=YYMMDD select only entrys of date -d YYMMDD --host=HOSTNAME db-host to ask -h HOSTNAME --user=USERNAME db-user -u USERNAME --password=PASSWORD password of db-user -p PASSWORD --socket=SOCKET change path to the socket -s SOCKET --printerror=1 enable error output -e 1 EXAMPLE mysql_explain_slow_log --host=localhost --user=foo --password=bar < /var/lib/mysql/slow.log AUTHORS Jan Willamowius <jan@willamowius.de>, http://www.willamowius.de/mysql-tools.html SEE ALSO mysql_explain_log documentation