If you followed along with the first post in our MySQL Optimization Series, you learned how to enable slow query logging on mysql and should have that turned on. (If not go ahead and follow the steps in that article now). Today we're going to take a look at how to read the slow query log and see what we can do with this data.
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Today we're going to cover how to log slow queries in mysql so that you can identify problems and refactor the correct queries in order to improve the performance of your website or application. Slow queries can cause errors when people use your website or application and having them will make your code difficult to scale. The first step toward fixing them is seeing which queries are slow in your code, so let's start by learning how to enable slow query logging without restarting the mysql service:
