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19th August 2009 - Link Blog

How to find un-indexed queries in MySQL, without using the log (via) Use tcpdump(!) to sniff the MySQL protocol and dump out queries that had the “no index used” bit set.

Posted 19th August 2009 at 11:42 am

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