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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
Book Image

MySQL 8 Cookbook

By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Managing the general query log and slow query log


There are two ways you can log the queries. One way is through general query log, and other way is through slow query log. In this section, you will learn about configuring them.

How to do it...

We will get into the details in the following subsections. 

General query log

As per the MySQL documentation:

The general query log is a general record of what mysqld is doing. The server writes information to this log when clients connect or disconnect, and it logs each SQL statement received from clients. The general query log can be very useful when you suspect an error in a client and want to know exactly what the client sent to mysqld:

  1. Specify the file for logging. If you do not specify, it will be created in the data directory with the name hostname.log. The server creates the file in the data directory unless an absolute path name is given to specify a different directory:
mysql> SET @@GLOBAL.general_log_file='/var/log/mysql/general_query_log'...