MySQL Proxy lua scripts from presentation

Ronald Bradford
July 27, 2008

The following Lua scripts are the examples are from my MySQL Proxy @ OSCON 08 presentation.

analyze_query.lua

MySQL Proxy Analyze Query .

Requires MySQL Proxy Logging Module .

What is released is the Version for MySQL 5.0. A generic version for all MySQL versions is not yet released.

histogram.lua

This script is part of the standard MySQL Proxy examples.

Other Scripts

Additional Lua scripts from MySQL forge are available here .

Tagged with: Databases General MySQL MySQL Proxy OSCON 2008

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