MySQL slow query log and mysqldumpslow

First enable slow query logging, then generate a slow query and finally look at the slow query log !

Enable
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/slow-query-log.html

Generate

select sleep(2)


then run mysqldumpslow

$ mysqldumpslow --help
Usage: mysqldumpslow [ OPTS... ] [ LOGS... ]

Parse and summarize the MySQL slow query log. Options are

  --verbose    verbose
  --debug      debug
  --help       write this text to standard output

  -v           verbose
  -d           debug
  -s ORDER     what to sort by (t, at, l, al, r, ar etc), 'at' is default
  -r           reverse the sort order (largest last instead of first)
  -t NUM       just show the top n queries
  -a           don't abstract all numbers to N and strings to 'S'
  -n NUM       abstract numbers with at least n digits within names
  -g PATTERN   grep: only consider stmts that include this string
  -h HOSTNAME  hostname of db server for *-slow.log filename (can be wildcard),
               default is '*', i.e. match all
  -i NAME      name of server instance (if using mysql.server startup script)
  -l           don't subtract lock time from total time

mysqldumpslow output

# Time: 070906 12:47:20
# User@Host: root[root] @ localhost []
# Query_time: 3  Lock_time: 0  Rows_sent: 1  Rows_examined: 0
select sleep(3);