Book Image

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

Using performance_schema


You can inspect the internal execution of the server at runtime using performance_schema. This should not be confused with information schema, which is used to inspect metadata.

There are many event consumers in performance_schema that influence the timings of a server, such as a function call, a wait for the operating system, a stage of an SQL statement execution (say, parsing or sorting), a single statement, or a group of statements. All the collected information is stored in performance_schema and is not replicated.

performance_schema is enabled by default; if you want to disable it, you can set performance_schema=OFF in the my.cnf file. By default, not all the consumers and instruments are enabled; you can turn them off/on by updating the performance_schema.setup_instruments and performance_schema.setup_consumers  tables.

How to do it...

We will see how to use the performance_schema.

Enable/disable performance_schema

To disable it, set performance_schema to 0:

shell...